Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A very chastened and much wiser PPL lived to tell the tale . |
| 2 | Stephenson had told the Pakistanis that Graveney 's remarks were a ‘ throwaway line ’ and had never been meant seriously . |
| 3 | But by the time Eachuinn Odhar 's great lymphad led the other galleys sweeping back in triumph along the Sound of Mull , Ruari and Luch had told the bees that Lachlan Cattanach had a fine bull-voiced boy , named Alan . |
| 4 | Curtis had told the driver to park the unmarked police car as near as possible to the alley entrance at the rear of the Eldorado apartment block . |
| 5 | RAF corporal John Williams and his wife Selina had told the court they 'd seen cocks fighting … as they drove past the layby . |
| 6 | There was a silence in Cadfael 's workshop in the herb garden , once Hugh had told the full story of Saint Winifred 's odyssey , and how , and in what mood , Robert Beaumont had entered the contest to possess her . |
| 7 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 8 | Mr Leach had told the court that Curtis had been a staunch supporter of the anti-smoking campaign and that his father had died from lung cancer . |
| 9 | The Bank of England had told the MPs that it did not think it had failed to discharge its supervisory duties . |
| 10 | But I was almost glad when Mr Robinson decided to tell the company at large of his Italian journeyings with Wordsworth , who desired to be back at home with every step they made , and could only with the utmost difficulty be persuaded to look about him . |
| 11 | As things were , Tolkien had to tell the ‘ Dark Tower ’ story himself . |
| 12 | Mr Donovan had told the court that he was ‘ humiliated and disgusted ’ by the article published in the magazine in August , 1991 . |
| 13 | Mr Donovan had told the court that he was ‘ humiliated and disgusted ’ by the article published in the magazine in August , 1991 . |
| 14 | At an earlier hearing , Mr McKenzie had told the judge that he had been employed in making doors for the transatlantic liner . |
| 15 | Sam flunked telling the team immediately , although he told Nutty . |
| 16 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 17 | Well the traveller grinned And Billy beginned To tell the most marvellous tales Of earthquakes and crimes And fabulous times And whole families swallowed by whales . |
| 18 | Finally , Yggdrasil bothered to tell the Gunmint . |
| 19 | Prior to the match , Evert had told the Australian captain , Wendy Turnbull , to tell her No. 1 player , Anne Minter , ‘ that if she can beat me as she did in Toronto ( in August ) , then she can beat Manuela Maleeva ’ . |
| 20 | Miller had told the Geordies to keep their hands off £2 million-rated Eoin Jess after claims that the striker was Kevin Keegan 's top transfer target . |
| 21 | He wondered how much had been passed on to Kenamun , though it was unlikely that Merymose had told the priest everything . |
| 22 | She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market . |
| 23 | Through her tears , Constance began to tell the dreadful story — and , hearing it with her aunt 's ears , she saw that it was indeed dreadful . |
| 24 | Orchis is Greek for testicle , which is what the roots look like , and Lydia had told the company so , because Mrs Molesworth , gazing fondly and favourably on her husband , had divulged that he had bought her orchids on the recent occasion of their wedding anniversary . |
| 25 | ‘ Look neither to the right nor to the left , but keep straight on ’ , Asquith had told the faithful in his resignation speech of October 1926 . |
| 26 | Whether Luther really referred to Copernicus as a fool has been doubted , but in an off-the-cuff dismissal he remembered that Joshua had told the sun , not the earth , to stand still . |
| 27 | On July 15 Blix had told the UN Security Council that the government 's latest list of nuclear facilities , issued on July 14 , was inadequate . |
| 28 | Walter Legge liked to tell the story — I think as an example of both your musicianship and your tactical skills — that at the graduation class in Vienna you chose the Overture to Rossini 's Guillaume Tell and then sent everyone away except the cellos so you could show exactly what you could do with them in the opening bars of the piece . |
| 29 | Assistant general manager Tony Vulcan had told the tribunal : ‘ Ken ran at John with his arms flailing , he got hold of him and even managed to rip his T-shirt off . ’ |
| 30 | Assistant general manager Tony Vulcan had told the tribunal : ‘ Ken ran at John with his arms flailing . |