Example sentences of "to tell the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let the film run again , watching as it cut to a later moment when Fischer had interrupted the meeting to tell the T'ang about the fire . |
| 2 | Well , yes it should , it should be , and there 's some good figures in there that you may want to tell the students about , and then what I would do is recommend that they have a look at it because the current issue . |
| 3 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 4 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
| 5 | I think they have gone off to tell the rest of their family what happened . ’ |
| 6 | It was difficult to tell the passage of time , but when Blake opened his eyes they appeared to be within reach of the rising smoke . |
| 7 | In his review for Vanity Fair Pare Lorentz argued that all the minor characters in I am a Fugitive were caricatures and that the film had been spoilt by the director 's decision to make the fugitive a hero and to tell the story through him rather than making the actual prison system the central focus of the film . |
| 8 | It is urging me on over the years bidding me neglect those that were without Cathenne , where as I set out to tell the story of my life , the dull with the bright , the gray with the green , all the Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays of it at least sufficiently to suggest them . |
| 9 | The children turned to face one another for the first time since the pastor had started to tell the story of the massacre . |
| 10 | Old Mother Jacobsen knew that she did not have unlimited time to tell the story of Marie Grubbe to Elisabeth Danziger ; Elisabeth would stay for an hour and then be on her way . |
| 11 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 12 | This major new visitor attraction located at Trinity College uses the most modern techniques to tell the story of Dublin , its origins , its past and its present . |
| 13 | Twenty-five years covered in one volume , with four other volumes following to tell the story of 1926 alone , shows that the key problem is that of seeing the whole wood among the wealth of trees . |
| 14 | The exhibition contains memorabilia from four generations of the Astor family , including letters and photographs , with graphic panels to tell the story of their position in society . |
| 15 | The exhibition contains memorabilia from four generations of the Astor family , including letters and photographs , with graphic panels to tell the story of their position in society . |
| 16 | I recall how he used to tell the story of the three pigs : when the wolf ate the pigs who 'd built their houses of straw and twigs , my father would gather me up and rub his bristly face against mine , saying , ‘ Gnaggle , gnaggle , gnaggle . ’ |
| 17 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 18 | The three leading Belgian dailies simply reproduced our Page One on their front pages to tell the story of ‘ Fergie and Johnny ’ . |
| 19 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 20 | ‘ Rubaiyat ’ is trying to tell the story of a record company , in the present tense , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Imagine that you are Harkness and want to tell the story of the day your brother got the cane . |
| 22 | You are going to tell the story of what happened . |
| 23 | 3 Write a few sentences to tell the story of what happens in Part One . |
| 24 | Quindly Quot used to tell the story of the Spiggies , their persecution by the Jingoes and how they got their revenge . |
| 25 | It became clear that the way to tell the story of her life was through her work . |
| 26 | If anyone has to tell the story of Ana de Santis I want it to be you . ’ |
| 27 | SPRINGFIELDS ' Dr Sue Ion has put pen to paper to tell the story of the successful development of Water Reactor and AGR fuel at the plant . |
| 28 | ‘ Rubaiyat ’ is trying to tell the story of a record company , in the present tense , ’ he says . |
| 29 | But they tell us that it will be set in the world of cinema , and will plunder a rich vein of cinematic style to tell the story of a disgraced film star with a secret , a dilemma , and a host of bad memories . |
| 30 | At the sermon , Father McKenna introduced one of his altar boys , Colm by name , and got him to tell the story about how he and his altar boy teammates had recently beaten another altar boys ' team by eight goals to five . |