Example sentences of "he [was/were] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | talking and he was telling about a visit he had paid to China for a whole week |
| 2 | ‘ He did n't like none of it , so he sort of copped out , gave up eating one fine day , till he could n't stand up no more , could n't do what he was told on the airfield . |
| 3 | When he was told of the hierarchy 's opposition to any bill of this kind , Dr Browne , himself secularly inclined , submitted his proposals and arguments to the hierarchy for approval , just as a previous Health Minister , Dr Walsh , had consulted Archbishop McQuaid on a similar matter in 1946 . |
| 4 | After his sensational ( and bloodthirsty ? ) triumph over the priests of Baal on Mount Carmel , he was told of the threat to his life by Ahab 's foreign queen Jezebel , and decided to flee down to the desert around Mount Sinai , the home of many prophets and a place of pilgrimage for many more . |
| 5 | There had been little dispute about anything else Thorfinn had wanted to do since the day he was told of the fighting in Lothian . |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd be amazed how many workers are prepared to offload their problems during the witching hour , ’ he said when he was told of the project . |
| 7 | So he would still stay there because he was told about the weather . |
| 8 | At the Los Angeles Open , Fred Couples says he was told by a spectator : ‘ Have a good day and do n't choke . ’ |
| 9 | Andrew O'Shea ( 31 ) , who was stationed at Donnybrook , told the High Court in Dublin that in April , 1992 , he was told by a detective inspector that a prostitute had made an allegation of robbery and assault against him . |
| 10 | CABINET minister Peter Lilley has the easiest job in the country , he was told by a wag in the audience at BBC 1 's Question Time . |
| 11 | PHILLIP McCallen received a body blow shortly before today 's Coca Cola North West 200 when he was told by the clerk of the course Billy Nutt that he would have to start from the back of the grid in the superbike race . |
| 12 | From what he was told by the Queen , by his unofficial advisers like the Dean of Westminster , and from his own conviction , Macmillan was sure that he must recommend Ramsey to the Queen . |
| 13 | Chris , 42 , of Longsight , Manchester , said he was told by the driver the half gallon tin might spill . |
| 14 | Thus when Archbishop Corbridge preferred to obey the pope in a matter of patronage , he was told by the king 's judges that he was wrong to do so because the pope 's acts were not subject to the English courts , and that no one should prosecute anything at Rome or elsewhere contrary to crown rights and royal dignity . |
| 15 | In Barker v. Bell ( 1971 C.A. ) the private purchaser of a motor car believed what he was told by the vendor — namely that the latter had bought the car under a hire purchase agreement from B finance company . |
| 16 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 17 | One young man said he was told in an interview at the company 's Middlesbrough office : ‘ Be prepared to sit in someone 's house for as long as it takes . |
| 18 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |