Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 2 | Sylvie had told him with a dreamy insouciance that Katherine was away in Boston , staying with a charming man called Thomas Sachs . |
| 3 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 4 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 5 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 6 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 7 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 8 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 9 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 10 | After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so . |
| 11 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 12 | Werner Meyer had told us of a pool about five miles from the Rante , known only to the Toraja , where " sacred eels " were occasionally " called forth " by the Tominahs to accept blessed offerings of rice . |
| 13 | Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries . |
| 14 | ‘ Feeling ill , poor darling , ’ Ian had told him with a hint of malice underlying his display of concern . |
| 15 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |
| 16 | For a moment , Kelly considered telling him about the dance , but then she thought better of it . |
| 17 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |