Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 2 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 3 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 4 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 5 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 6 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 7 | Nor does the Kennel Club tell me about its achievements . |
| 8 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 9 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 10 | your mum told me about her . |
| 11 | ‘ That couple are not really married , ’ Peter M. told me in wondering tones . |
| 12 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 13 | A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny , the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match . |
| 14 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 15 | My spouse told me to just calm down and breathe . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm here because my husband told me to be here , Shih Bergson . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You need n't keep so quiet , I 'm only testing the microphone , not recording at all , ’ the singer told me with a smile . |
| 18 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 19 | It was because the rector told me on Sunday night . |
| 20 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 21 | When my friend told me about you , I was looking forward to meeting you . |
| 22 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 23 | The minute your gran told me about it I knew it was n't true — and so did she , or suspected as much , anyway . |
| 24 | She paused for a moment and then went on , ‘ Since thoo told me about t'baby , Aah 've been thinking . |
| 25 | The night watchman told me about the incident in the morning . |
| 26 | I ca n't go into the glass office as she has locked herself inside , so I press the intercom like the sign tells me to . |
| 27 | A FRIEND tells me of a post-electoral poster war which has broken out in his salubrious street in north Kensington , London , quite different in tone from the good-humoured gobbing on one another 's doorsteps which characterised neighbourly relations during the three weeks preceding the day that the revolution failed to dawn . |
| 28 | I am confused by what the king tells me in dreams , and I need your help . |
| 29 | ‘ Your captain told me about you . |
| 30 | The stage manager told me of John 's background and interest in theatre and that he ‘ was making himself useful ’ . |