Example sentences of "[verb] to tell [pron] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 2 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 3 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 4 | While he talked with Atkins , writes Walker , ‘ Norma and Dulcie were symbolically , sitting at the stern , neither of the men thinking to tell them of the course they were plotting . ’ |
| 5 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 6 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 7 | But he had to tell someone of the joy dying inside him . |