Example sentences of "he tells the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chains he tells the Sanhedrin itself about the one name in heaven by which we must be saved . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's something in the air in this place ! ’ he tells the porter . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course not ! ’ he tells the army officer , and that 's the end of it . |
| 4 | In my judgment , that duty is not discharged by the constable unless he tells the person who has provided the samples of breath of both types of specimen referred to in section [ 7(4) ] . |
| 5 | He tells the farmer and his wife he wants four times as much rent for the land . |
| 6 | I 've read Mike 's copy carefully , and as he tells the story of Briant 's explanation of what he 's doing , I ca n't see any other way to treat it . |
| 7 | His patter is now issued on a cassette in which he tells the story of how he was baptised as Christian . |
| 8 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 9 | He tells the story of Joseph and his brothers by painting the faces of young men on top of photographically-enlarged pages from the bible . |
| 10 | He tells the story of one occasion when he and two friends decided to swim across to the island from Aberdour . |
| 11 | He goes well , look and he tells the story . |
| 12 | The interview with Jason , he tells the jury , had been ‘ twisted , distorted , added to and invented ; and it attributed cowardice at the very moment the Gulf War was about to break out ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ It is likely that as you hear the story you will experience strong emotions , ’ he tells the jury . |
| 14 | ‘ Take me to la piazza Rosa , ’ he tells the taxi driver . |
| 15 | He tells The Art Newspaper , ‘ Philip Pouncey ( the leading British drawings connoisseur until his death last year ) used to bemoan the fact that during his eleven years at the National Gallery in London , almost no connection was ever made between the two by curators . |
| 16 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |
| 17 | What he says is that if anything goes badly , he tells the team , ‘ I did it ’ . |
| 18 | Just as the Prime Minister , or whoever briefed him , will be doing a few months after that when he tells the House that the report that Summerchild was working on was the comparability study which has since been published . |
| 19 | He tells the world that he was the sole survivor of the original wreck , and that he has sustained himself by eating berries , leaves and roots . |
| 20 | He wants to press on , he tells the world , with his plans to extend democracy in the colony before its 1997 handover to China . |
| 21 | In the absence of express provisions in the contract , s 35 of the SGA makes this difficult for him , since it provides that he is deemed to have accepted goods either when he tells the seller that he has done so , or when he does an act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller . |
| 22 | The word appears twice in Dostoevsky 's letter to Katkov outlining Crime and Punishment , in the phrase ‘ unsteadiness of ideas ’ — which is natural since a drama of reflection is about to unfold : thinking is Raskolnikov 's work , as he tells the maid Nastasya . |
| 23 | But Trogus soon falls back into imaginary history when he tells the episode of the chieftain Catumarandus , who had been persuaded in a dream by a goddess to make peace with Massalia . |
| 24 | He tells the truth if asked . |
| 25 | If he says his serving-maid he 'll be laughed at ; if he tells the truth — ’ |