Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [pron] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 2 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 3 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 4 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 5 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 6 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 7 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 8 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 9 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 10 | Did I tell you about her little one who had stomach pains ? |
| 11 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 12 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 13 | She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman . |
| 14 | Can you tell me of your first involvement with the support group ? |
| 15 | Melanie tried to reconstruct his return , Aunt Margaret making tea , he asking after the newcomers and she telling him in her own way . |
| 16 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 17 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 18 | ‘ Did they tell you about his Last Words ? ’ |
| 19 | The Baskerville lawyers are trying to contact him to tell him about his good fortune . |
| 20 | He told her about his old school . |
| 21 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 22 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 23 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 24 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 25 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 26 | He goes home , to be abused by his wife for not being at work , until he tells her of his heavenly gift . |
| 27 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |