Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell they [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NatWest is to contact its 5 million cardholders to tell them about the problem . |
| 2 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 3 | He was refused permission to shut the bar at 1am but keep the club open until 2am , and made an announcement to clubbers telling them of the police decision . |
| 4 | I 'll be going to Governments and health authorities to tell them about the benefits for a whole society . |
| 5 | The " and then " reading of both ands in the first sentence can be shown to be systematically " read in " to conjoined reports of events by a pragmatic principle governing the reporting of events tell them in the order in which they will or have occurred . |
| 6 | Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity . |