Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 2 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |
| 3 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 4 | ‘ Now there is one of nature 's gentlemen , ’ someone had told me at Monaco in 1975 when I first met Mario . |
| 5 | She alleged that the doctor had told her at a seminar that she desired Lozano . |
| 6 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 7 | They were constructing a series of weirs upstream , so they had told her at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , which would eventually control this annual predator , but for this year , at least , it surged down irresistibly as ever , biting acres out of its banks as it cornered , like a ferocious animal frustrated . |
| 8 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |