Example sentences of "[adv] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went into hospital the day before and was only told on the day of the operation it would not go ahead . |
| 2 | He repeats one he once told at an audition for a right-on theatre company . |
| 3 | The central committee meeting was also told by the head of its history department , David Elazar , that ‘ Todor Zhivkov lied about his prominent role in the party 's history and wartime anti-fascist struggle ’ . |
| 4 | … I also tell in the introduction of that book how my mother collected peasant embroideries of Slovakia . |
| 5 | It was a well-known story among City men and was often told as an example of what used to happen in the bad old days of ten years ago — and what , by implication , could never happen now . |
| 6 | I was frequently told of the necessity for study overseas in order to do anything worthwhile in the academic field because facilities in China were so ‘ backward ’ . |
| 7 | One report even tells of an encounter with a yeti-like creature . |
| 8 | ‘ I know nothing of this part of the world except for the tales sometimes told in the hall about the mountains . ’ |
| 9 | I do not believe that the gospel story — of redemption and reconciliation — can be adequately told without the clamour of spiritual warfare or without the primary role of the Evil One . |
| 10 | David , who had been briefly told about the flight from Sam , joked , ‘ You might try selling gingerbread . |
| 11 | Julie says she was never told about the risk of toxoplasmosis … and she 's calling for all pregnant women to be screened for the infection : |