Example sentences of "tell [pron] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 2 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 3 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 4 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 5 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 6 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 7 | All the old historians when mentioning Hailing tell us of the old Manor of Langridge or Bavents , each one describes the antiquity of the Manor from Adam de Bavent to the various owners of their period until we reach William Baker . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't tell them of the major side effects for fear of losing them ’ Field worker , Kenya |
| 9 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 10 | Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ? |
| 11 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 12 | Having examined the fabric of a church , what can this tell us of the local landscape ? |
| 13 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 14 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 15 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |