Example sentences of "tell of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 2 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 3 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 4 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |
| 5 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 6 | Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old . |
| 7 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 8 | I shed a tear or two as Movietone news told of the death of our dearly loved Chief , Lord Robert Baden-Powell . |
| 9 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 10 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 11 | BRAVE singer Olivia Newton-John told of the nightmare day she learned she had cancer just hours after her father died . |
| 12 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 13 | The 43-year-old star of The Charmer telephoned the BBC moments after its Watchdog programme told of the plight of mother-of-three Jenny Graham . |
| 14 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 15 | Remember the firemen who told of the charred and blackened bodies of children they had to bring from the smoking ruins of homes ? |
| 16 | He told of the Black Sea fishing collective where the catch was counted not in kilos of fish flesh but in the grams of the salted roe of the sturgeon . |
| 17 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 18 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 19 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 20 | He told of the saints who established Christianity , and who were really responsible for stability and civilisation in northern Britain . |
| 21 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 22 | Ademar of Chabannes told of the murder of the duke of Aquitaine 's prévôt at St Jean d'Angély in 1026 , and the destruction of his house by the angry inhabitants of the town . |
| 23 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 24 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 25 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 26 | He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family . |
| 27 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 28 | Reverend Brian Smith told of the reaction at Lyneham as the extent of the tragedy became clear |
| 29 | He told of the advancements made against the backcloth of the Single Market , highlighting how all major EC turkey-producing countries had increased output during the past five years . |
| 30 | Charlotte Ward , whose brother Jason was injured in a shooting incident at Stillington on Easter Sunday morning , told of the relationship . |