Example sentences of "tell her [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
| 2 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 3 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
| 4 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 5 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 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 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 8 | So much so that even her ‘ father ’ would have had difficulty telling her from the real thing . |
| 9 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 10 | He was very tempted to tell her about The Yellow Chair . |
| 11 | 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 . |