Example sentences of "[pron] tell [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 2 | Then I told about the tales the neighbours were telling about her Mum and her men friends . |
| 3 | ‘ If ever I succeed ’ he writes ‘ in bringing our native kings back to life in my songs , and Arthur who waged wars even under the earth , or if I tell of the splendid heroes of the table rendered invincible by their bond of comradeship and , oh if inspiration would but come to me , if I smash the Saxon phalanxes beneath the impact of the British . ’ |
| 4 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 5 | Richard Knolles , writing in 1603 , refers to the ‘ country songs ’ of the Serbs which tell of the alleged duplicity of the faithless George Branković who betrayed Christendom to the Turks . |
| 6 | Such a vision is as microscopic as Paul Scott 's is panoramic ; and a future historian , reading the Raj Quartet or J. G. Farrell 's Siege of Krishnapur ( 1973 ) , which tells of the Indian Mutiny , might easily make the mistake of supposing that the British are nostalgic for lost empire . |
| 7 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 8 | Remember the firemen who told of the charred and blackened bodies of children they had to bring from the smoking ruins of homes ? |
| 9 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 10 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 11 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 12 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 13 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 14 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 15 | Could n't you tell with the meter er th th th the control whether it 's worth it or not ? |
| 16 | ‘ Ca n't you tell by the sponge cake ? ’ |
| 17 | Ca n't you tell by the designer hat ? |
| 18 | So a dramatic story like the one told about the Carib is clearly not adequate : it over explains what is really a rather small difference . |
| 19 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 20 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 21 | The chapters preceding this one tell of the Passover and the miracle at the Reed Sea . |
| 22 | And my books here — see — this one tells of the Hovevei Zion , and how from the Russian pogroms they come to settle in Palestine with money they get from Baron de Rothschild . ’ |
| 23 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 24 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 25 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 26 | Instead , they tell of the support they have received from their extended family in Kirkby . |
| 27 | ‘ Half the lies they tell about the Irish are n't true anyway , ’ as the old Irishman said . |
| 28 | Which would seem to imply that he murdered Christian to prevent her telling about the murder of the widow . |
| 29 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 30 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |