Example sentences of "tell a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Friday , Rudman , 34 , who fled a psychiatric institution in Britain on July 31 , told a Co . |
| 2 | In 1985 Tipperary County Manager John McGinley told a Magill reporter that the County Council did not find out about the lake until after this five-year period had elapsed . |
| 3 | BRITAIN should enter the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System as soon as the present turbulence in the foreign exchange markets has died away , Sir Leon Brittan , the European Commissioner , told a Bow Group fringe meeting last night . |
| 4 | Sir Leon Brittan , Britain 's EC commissioner , told a Bow Group fringe meeting last night that the Government should enter into the ERM as soon as turbulence subsided in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 5 | Kadhafi told a session of the GPC on Oct. 7 that security forces had clashed with what he called " an extremist Islamic group " near the town of Ajdabiya , about 725 km south-east of Tripoli , some of whom had been killed and others captured . |
| 6 | HISTORICAL monuments are so badly signposted that many visitors are unaware of their existence , the Scottish Tourist Board 's chief executive , Tom Band , told a tourism conference yesterday , writes Alison Daniels . |
| 7 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |
| 8 | After the laughter had died away , he told a story about one particular commercial that he 'd worked on . |
| 9 | It told a story of an empty and loveless marriage , of dreams shattered and hope vanquished . |
| 10 | SHE was once considered one of the world 's most beautiful women , but yesterday every line etched on Britt Ekland 's face told a story of personal anguish . |
| 11 | To each soul , be they merchant or prospector , mannered gentlewoman or rough-handed son of toil , Drachenfels told a story which appealed to their own greatest vanity or desire : warmth and shelter , food and drink , society and snobberies , paintings and poets and Elven musicians … |
| 12 | To those who knew no better , he told a story of having first taken the examinations and done brilliantly . |
| 13 | Edward once told a story about the house : |
| 14 | The father of the man accused of the M50 murder told a jury yesterday he advised his son to use the motorway on the day that pregnant housewife Marie Wilks vanished . |
| 15 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 16 | Mr Justice Stable told a jury that the words ‘ to deprave and corrupt ’ must not be construed as ‘ to shock and disgust ’ , which is not a criminal offence , the argument Lord Gardiner had deployed in gaining an acquittal in the Lady Chatterley case . |
| 17 | A STREET busker who told a jury he shared Madonna 's views on sex was convicted yesterday of raping a 19-year-old girl he seized at a bus stop . |
| 18 | The children 's lawyer , Terrill Corley , told a jury in Creek County , Oklahoma , Bic lighters sometimes failed to extinguish and exploded because of butane gas overheating . |
| 19 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 20 | Sheila Stroud , who 's one of three co-defendants , wept in the dock , as she told a jury how her ex-lover was tied up , and pushed over a cliff in a burning car . |
| 21 | Paul Llewelyn Jones told a jury at Mold Crown Court he was beaten with a cane or a whip three or four times a week and was forced to scour bins for food . |
| 22 | Paul Llewelyn Jones told a jury at Mold Crown Court he was beaten with a cane or a whip three or four times a week and was forced to scour bins for food . |
| 23 | A JUDGE told a jury yesterday that it ‘ might have saved time ’ if evil Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady had been shot . |
| 24 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 25 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury at the Old Bailey , in London , of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 26 | A GIRL yesterday told a jury of a horrifying sex ordeal at the hands of her father , grandfather and her uncle . |
| 27 | Italian pop star Loredana Berte told a judge she needs the massive handouts to keep her in the luxurious style she enjoyed when they were together . |
| 28 | The 11-year-old from Leeds told a judge : ‘ I do n't want to live with my mummy anymore . ’ |
| 29 | He was the sort of man who , when caught riding up in a lift in Rio 's rather staid and old-fashioned Copacabana Palace Hotel with a lady whose skin was some forty shades darker than Alexander 's own pink and cream , told a desk clerk who remonstrated that ‘ ladies ’ were not allowed in guest bedrooms , ‘ What do you mean by ‘ ladies ’ ? |
| 30 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |