Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She never stopped telling the story- and believe me , when my Grandma Gertie liked a story , she aired it often — of the weird goings-on in the place in Cable Street , and how she was sure the bedroom was haunted . |
| 2 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 3 | She told Spruce more or less what she 'd told the Archdeacon of her contact with Mrs Marr in London at St Sylvester 's Betterhouse mentioning Racy without revealing that he 'd phoned her on Sunday . |
| 4 | What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ? |
| 5 | It would be useful if the Prime Minister intervened to tell the House precisely what formula he had in mind for the limitation of fiscal deficits . |
| 6 | Sam flunked telling the team immediately , although he told Nutty . |
| 7 | But someone forgot to tell the computer . |
| 8 | But they set off in April — and forgot to tell the town hall . |
| 9 | The victim of a sexual assault threatened to tell the town of the crime unless she was paid money . |
| 10 | The Dormouse woke up and quickly began to tell a story , but a few minutes later it was asleep again . |
| 11 | The children liked the wooden soldiers and began to tell a story about them . |
| 12 | Alice began to tell the Cat all about the game . |
| 13 | 1891 began to tell the tale . |
| 14 | ‘ He loved telling the story . |
| 15 | Arthur immediately started to tell a story about a time in music hall when he had set out to behave less admirably and had cost a theatre manager a packet . |
| 16 | Stella however , survived to tell the tale and is now taking swimming lessons in |
| 17 | Inevitably many book sand much schoolwork was destroyed by the fire but there is at least some good news … the Holy Tinity pet gerbils were rescued and survived to tell the tale . |
| 18 | It happened to quality assistant Liz Stephens , who works at Courtaulds Electrical Insulation in Runcorn , UK , but happily she survived to tell the tale . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mr Hayden , after further thoughts about the matter , decided to tell the station master , Mr A. Jones , about the occurrence , seeking his advice as to the right measures to adopt in these strange circumstances . |
| 21 | He decided to tell the story of William Black to the Down Presbytery which met monthly and consisted of the Presbyterian ministers of a substantial section of County Down together with one lay elder from each congregation . |
| 22 | Christine , 52 , decided to tell the world of her own experiences about two years ago , as much for therapeutic reasons as through a desire to reach those with similar horror stories to tell . |
| 23 | Unlike the minister , he finally decided to tell the truth . |
| 24 | I had to go back to the room , as if I needed to tell the place where I lived of my feeling . |
| 25 | Stop Hinkley Expansion in fact succeeded in flying over Professor Kemp Houck , a member of the Mid-America Coalition for Energy Alternatives , who proceeded to tell the hearing about his unusual welcome at Heathrow Airport . |
| 26 | And , whereas Charles had left it at that , Michael Banks 's understudy proceeded to tell the author just how much of a massacre the star was making of his play . |
| 27 | On hearing a recording of a sentence that was " JC but not quite the JC extreme " ( Sutcliffe 1982a : 124 ) he offered to tell a story in a language that was " more Jamaican " than what he had just heard . |
| 28 | He always felt much better after , but he never dared tell the dream to his wife . |
| 29 | IF the 31-year-old Nigerian DID tell a lie that embarrassed not only the Chancellor of the Exchequer but the entire Government , why was n't he dismissed , too ? |
| 30 | If a breakdown does occur , we rush to our files to extract the relevant memo which shows that we did tell the boss what was happening — that is , we cover ourselves . |