Example sentences of "[noun] tell of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 2 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 3 | The 43-year-old star of The Charmer telephoned the BBC moments after its Watchdog programme told of the plight of mother-of-three Jenny Graham . |
| 4 | Both books tell of the extremes a man will go to obtain the object of his desire , and how despite all his efforts , neither hero succeeds ultimately . |
| 5 | Levi tells of the bond between himself , a Jew , and , Sandro , a fellow chemistry student and loner , as Fascism 's iron hand grips Europe . |
| 6 | Popular unrest had begun to develop even before his death — commissions were appointed to investigate insurrections in Kent on 2 February and in Surrey on 11 April , and a London chronicle tells of the arrest and execution , at an unspecified date , of a rebel leader known as Bluebeard. ( 7 ; 22 , p.158 ) By the end of May the Kentishmen were marching on London , in June there was a skirmish with royal forces , and they presented a formal complaint of their grievances . |
| 7 | In this fascinating book , Ronald Blakey tells of the 19th-century ministers preoccupation with stocking his library . |
| 8 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 9 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 10 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 11 | Guitarist and songwriter Guy Chadwick tells of the trials and the tribulations , and reveals some surprising influences … |
| 12 | The fishing-boats had landed the catch of the night , and were spreading their nets on the tall masts erected for drying them over ; a bridge spanned the mountain stream that bounded towards the bay in wild leaps ; and all the glen , with its mountain girdling its steep precipices , its grass slopes , was veiled in mystery — only the nearer shoulders of the hill revealed their naked rock , and the outflow of the rushing stream told of the heights we could not see . |
| 13 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 14 | Eyewitnesses told of the horror as shrapnel rained down on shoppers from two devices placed in cast-litter bins less than ten yards apart . |
| 15 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 16 | However he does admit ‘ madrigalisms ’ such as the agonized chromatic harmonies in which the Evangelist tells of the crown of thorns . |
| 17 | I shed a tear or two as Movietone news told of the death of our dearly loved Chief , Lord Robert Baden-Powell . |
| 18 | ‘ The myths of Gallifrey tell of the Dark Times . |
| 19 | Another messenger tells of the death of a lord who gave a lot of money to the church . |
| 20 | Many are the tales telling of the intelligence and concern shown by creatures of the animal kingdom . |
| 21 | All of us , I am sure , have tales to tell of the anguish and alienation that exists between parents and children . |
| 22 | Moray and Robert Stewart had similar tales to tell of the poor leadership and rash foolishness at Halidon Hill , although being themselves young and inexperienced they did not see it in quite the same terms as had the veteran Keith . |
| 23 | His story tells of the brave men of the New Zealand Shipping Co Tekoa . |
| 24 | BRAVE singer Olivia Newton-John told of the nightmare day she learned she had cancer just hours after her father died . |
| 25 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 26 | But Brynner was a star as well as a powerful personality and Rock 's own life tells of the effect that had . |
| 27 | Last night her sister Lucy , 21 , emerged from a tearful reunion to tell of the ordeal . |
| 28 | A Bell For Adano told of the impact of American soldiers occupying an Italian village . |
| 29 | It was a struggle in which the heroic confessor of the faith was understood to be uniquely assisted by the Spirit of God , and more than one account tells of the ‘ victims ’ being granted visions to strengthen them . |
| 30 | Mr Jack Hallam 's excellent book Ghosts of London tells of the unexplained sounds of heavy footsteps heard by staff at night at Tulse Hill Station . |