Example sentences of "[pron] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was so hot we lay on the floor and watched the wheeling and turning of the planes and the occasional flare-up which told of a kill . |
| 2 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 3 | ‘ BY DAYLIGHT , the bower of Oak 's newfound mistress Bathsheba Everdene presented itself as a hoary building of the Jacobean stage of Classical Renaissance as regards its architecture , and of a proportion which tells at a glance that , as is frequently the case , it has once been the manorial hall on a small estate … |
| 4 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 7 | In Lady Wilde 's tale November Eve ( from Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland ) , she tells of a lad who was lured to a fairy revel where he met Finvarra and Oonagh . |
| 8 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 9 | But how could you tell with a Time Lord ? |
| 10 | Could n't you tell with the meter er th th th the control whether it 's worth it or not ? |
| 11 | Ca n't you tell by the designer hat ? |
| 12 | ‘ Ca n't you tell by the sponge cake ? ’ |
| 13 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 14 | The chapters preceding this one tell of the Passover and the miracle at the Reed Sea . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Scotland , they tell of a madman of the woods who sounds like our Sweeney . |
| 18 | Instead , they tell of the support they have received from their extended family in Kirkby . |
| 19 | They tell of an army of warriors who fought a terrible war . |
| 20 | Which would seem to imply that he murdered Christian to prevent her telling about the murder of the widow . |
| 21 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 22 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 23 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Against a thumping back-beat , it told of a love affair between ‘ Harry and Johnny 's wife ’ . |
| 27 | Based on a story by Harry Nilsson , it told of a father competing with a TV set for his son 's attention . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 30 | 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 . |