Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product . |
| 2 | ‘ To tell them about a misunderstanding ? ’ |
| 3 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 4 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 5 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |
| 6 | Before we go , just time to tell you about a new two part series on Central News starting tomorrow night . |
| 7 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 8 | Before I answer your questions this time , I would like to tell you of a couple of points that have arisen recently about machine maintenance . |
| 9 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 10 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 11 | I know it was a lie , but at six years old I felt that a close relative should be the one to tell him in a quiet way . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 13 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 14 | Waiting to tell us about a victory for Bicester over Milton in the Hellenic League premier cup ; Bicester two , they 're going so well at the moment , Milton nil ; Charlie Rawling . |
| 15 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 16 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |