Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 2 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 6 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 7 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 8 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 9 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 10 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 11 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 12 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 13 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 14 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 15 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 16 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 19 | They just were n't compatible , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 20 | This is crazy , she told herself for the umpteenth time . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 22 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 23 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 24 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |
| 25 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 26 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
| 27 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 28 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
| 29 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 30 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |