Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 2 | The card told me the rest . |
| 3 | The oxygen isotonic ratios of the coral tell us the water temperature at the time the coral was growing . |
| 4 | The equipment can be switched on and off by two switches on the front of the unit , and a red light tells you the power is on . |
| 5 | Look back at the section on decimal place values and check : unc Notice that the place value of the last figure tells you the size of the denominator . |
| 6 | On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying : |
| 7 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 8 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 9 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 10 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 11 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 12 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 13 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 14 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 15 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 16 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 17 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 18 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 19 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 20 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 21 | Lancashire County Council tell me the skip will be provided from Tuesday 30th March to Tuesday 6th April . |
| 22 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 23 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 24 | ‘ They knew about us , the type of vehicle we were drivin' , and they instructed the keeper of that crossin' to tell us the road over the pass was open , that it was okay . ’ |
| 25 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 26 | The MoD told us the organisers were aware of potential problems when they moved to Wroughton three years ago . |
| 27 | There was no answer to her gibe , and , despite the fact that the fumes in the room told her the substance on her hair was likely to blind her if it made contact , she sat up and risked opening one eye . |
| 28 | FOOTNOTE : If it 's any comfort to Mel , his medic told us the toes of windscreen pirates get crushed at the rate of ONE A WEEK on the busy A4 London to Bath road . |
| 29 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 30 | So there 's my grandma telling me the difference between a girl and a boy . |