Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell of the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure .
3 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 .
4 She told of the one time when the weeping stopped .
5 She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Instead , they tell of the support they have received from their extended family in Kirkby .
10 He told of the Black Sea fishing collective where the catch was counted not in kilos of fish flesh but in the grams of the salted roe of the sturgeon .
11 He told of the saints who established Christianity , and who were really responsible for stability and civilisation in northern Britain .
12 In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there .
13 He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family .
14 He told of the advancements made against the backcloth of the Single Market , highlighting how all major EC turkey-producing countries had increased output during the past five years .
15 Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons .
16 Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old .
17 Drawing on the trauma Miller suffered when his wife enjoyed a lesbian affair with a failed artist , it tells of the trauma a writer suffers when his wife …
18 The play tells several stories , such as young love , but most of all it tells of the magnificent Madame MacAdam and her troupe and of the comic and tragic effects they have upon an isolated community .
19 It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming .
20 With its doublet parable of the dragnet , it tells of the time of final judgment when , at the end of time , the
21 190pp , hbk , retailing at £16.95 it tells of the crash-landing , the salvage and the restoration — brilliantly .
22 I wonder what it tells of the spirit of the age that the 100th birthday of one of our most distinguished writers should be greeted by a knocking biography .
23 Using powerful images of confinement and liberty it tells of the romantic but misguided attachment of Sibella , whose defiance towards her restrictive education leads on to her sexual maturity and death .
24 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 .
25 Best of all , he tells of the people caught up on the fringes of small wars , and finds in their resilience the small mercies of his title .
26 He tells of the Elder Scipio 's tears on appreciating the humiliations to which the royal ladies were exposed after his capture of Carthago Nova ( 10.18.13 ) .
27 Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia :
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