Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 7 | However he does admit ‘ madrigalisms ’ such as the agonized chromatic harmonies in which the Evangelist tells of the crown of thorns . |
| 8 | I shed a tear or two as Movietone news told of the death of our dearly loved Chief , Lord Robert Baden-Powell . |
| 9 | Another messenger tells of the death of a lord who gave a lot of money to the church . |
| 10 | His story tells of the brave men of the New Zealand Shipping Co Tekoa . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But Brynner was a star as well as a powerful personality and Rock 's own life tells of the effect that had . |
| 13 | Last night her sister Lucy , 21 , emerged from a tearful reunion to tell of the ordeal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I visit the veterans , they have such a wealth of experience to tell of the old days , some I may add , from before I was born , and it does seem such a shame they never get an invite to look behind the scenes of a present day JS branch . |
| 16 | Even the great spread of inter-war surburban houses , such as those which line the Kingston by-pass in Surrey , have a fascinating story to tell of the growth of such areas if we are prepared to look at them properly . |
| 17 | Monday 13 — Saturday 18 November at 8.15pm Stage Directions Theatre Company present ( Mon — Weds ) by Gareth Thomas ( Thurs — Sat ) by R.C. Sheriff PETTICOAT REBELLION tells of the heroic suffragette movement 's fight to get voting rights for women . |
| 18 | Oscar Wilde 's Ballad of Reading Gaol tells of the hanging of a trooper at the prison : |