Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pers pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 2 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 8 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 9 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 10 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |
| 11 | However , he did tell me about the Women 's Therapy Centre . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 14 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 18 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 19 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 20 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You can get out now if you want to , ’ he said , after he had told her about the phone call to Coy . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 27 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 28 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 29 | Then I had to tell her about the visit — about most of it — from Sergia and her cohorts . |
| 30 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |