Example sentences of "tell of one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 2 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 3 | Children used to be told of one triumph after another . |
| 4 | I was told of one particular youngster in Stockton-on-Tees who has been arrested and charged no fewer than 17 times this year . |
| 5 | The story is told of one time Archbishop of Paris , who with two or three other of his friends as young lads they went into the great cathedral there at Notre Dame |
| 6 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 7 | Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat . |
| 8 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |