Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] the news " in BNC.
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| 1 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 2 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 3 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |
| 4 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 5 | We never run out of conversation , although it knocked the wind out of his sails when I told him the news and he suggested I contact a faith-healer friend of his . |
| 6 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 7 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 8 | The expression on Hurley 's face when George told him the news was reward enough in itself , but there was an altogether different reaction from the DIA when Coleman reported in about El-Jorr and his key role as the DEA CI fronting for Eurame . |
| 9 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |
| 10 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 11 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 12 | Now , tell me the news . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me the news , ’ she said , pulling herself together . |
| 14 | Tell me the news about Tom . |
| 15 | I dressed and rushed through the streets to Dana 's place , and after prolonged hammering on his door managed to wake him and tell him the news . |
| 16 | A little before midnight Miriam , who had been unable to sleep , came over to see him and tell him the news . |
| 17 | Tell us the news , Tall . ’ |
| 18 | If he did , would she tell him the news ? |
| 19 | Should we tell him the news , do you think ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ And Harold , ’ said Charles in a firmer tone , ‘ I very much appreciate your telling me the news so kindly . |
| 21 | So I drove back across the whole of the county , from Banbury to Henley to return to Windsor , where my parents were spending the summer with us , and looked forward to telling them the news . |
| 22 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 23 | I had to tell him the news myself |
| 24 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 25 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they were seeing ten thousand neutrons per cm 3 per second and on 1 March Fleischmann phoned Ron Bullough , the Harwell Chief Scientist , to tell him the news . |
| 26 | The plaited bamboo walls curled tightly round a stout frame of beech poles , cut and stripped by Rima with the big bush knife he had brought up from the trade-store when Joseph had run down to tell him the news . |
| 27 | Aunt Tossie considered if this was the right evening to tell her the news . |