Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 2 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 3 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 4 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 5 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 6 | Mr Connon when I arrived told me about the letter Jenny received and also about your warning to him that there might be phone calls also . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 9 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 10 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |
| 13 | However , he did tell me about the Women 's Therapy Centre . |
| 14 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 15 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 16 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 17 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 18 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 19 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 20 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 21 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 22 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 23 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 24 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 27 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 28 | Her encounters with Timothy had continued and it was he who had told her of the birth of Andrew 's son a year after his marriage . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ You can get out now if you want to , ’ he said , after he had told her about the phone call to Coy . |