Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] tell the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A similar finding emerged in the Dooling and Lachman ( 1971 ) experiment discussed earlier where more words closely related to the theme of the passage were incorrectly recalled when subjects were told the title of the passage before being presented with it . ) |
| 2 | And , on top of everything else , she had no way of knowing whether Veronica was telling the truth . |
| 3 | Judge John Slack was told the hunt had been followed by members of the League Against Cruel Sports . |
| 4 | But members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site built without Department of Environment grant aid was extremely basic and fell short of the type of accommodation provided on county council-owned sites . |
| 5 | Members of Durham County Council 's social services committee were told the site was extremely basic . |
| 6 | Carpenter Gordon Brettell was told the van had been discovered with tools worth £2,500 intact . |
| 7 | Demand for prospectuses has been such that an Independent scribe seeking a Warburgs telephone number for publication was told the firm really would prefer that it did not appear in print . |
| 8 | The event will go ahead on August 30 , along with the nationally recognised dog show on the Saturday , but the parish council was told the show 's future looked gloomy because of increased charges , particularly those for hiring equipment from Langbaurgh council . |
| 9 | It was n't all that much help , anyway , as far as tracing the kidnappers was concerned , but it did mean that on that point at least the Nilsen girl was telling the truth . |
| 10 | The second group was told the title after they had read the passage , while the third group were not told the title at all . |
| 11 | Without scrutinising the accounts and checking them against stock , Ian could think of no way of discovering whether Williams was telling the truth about the number of candles held by the Cathedral . |
| 12 | Perhaps Trine was telling the truth and Love Hearts were being taken at raves all over the country . |
| 13 | The court was told the offences were committed in August , 1981 , four months after Dakers had been released on parole from a four-year prison term imposed for burglary , theft and handling . |
| 14 | The court was told the incident sparked off a week-long rooftop protest by inmates at Franklands Jail , County Durham . |
| 15 | In a rare prosecution following an incident on the field during a Football League game , Salisbury Crown Court was told the tussle followed a clearance from defence . |
| 16 | The court was told the charges relate alleged assaults between January 1 , 1972 , and December 31 , 1973 . |
| 17 | The court was told the house was unoccupied when the pair broke in but the police received information that a burglary was in progress . |
| 18 | The court was told the woman became pregnant and had to have an abortion . |
| 19 | The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer . |
| 20 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 21 | Coroner Michael Colcutt was told the police officers had followed the forces procedures when chasing cars . |
| 22 | Although I found it impossible to imagine such a conversation with Mrs Monro , I had no doubt that Lili was telling the truth , and whatever the psychological convolutions the facts were there . |
| 23 | When Carrie looked at Melody 's dripping hair hanging all about her face and the sodden dress clinging to her body , she realised Seb was telling the truth and her face lost its tightness . |
| 24 | One of his first actions was to tell the St Petersburg gentry assembly that its devotion to the throne had sweetened his father 's last moments . |
| 25 | When further requests were made at 2.10pm and 2.15pm callers were told the ambulance was on its way , he said . |
| 26 | A second registrar examined Christopher , but decided it was possible Celia and Danny were telling the truth . |
| 27 | He remembered clearly that Murray had asked if he had any mail , and his instinct was to tell the truth . |
| 28 | It would have been nice to have been in the presentation room when the John Smith 's brand manager was told the script of their ads . |
| 29 | During a meeting , the workforce was told the Government would not put any money into the campaign to save the British operation of Leyland-DAF . |
| 30 | Members were told the weighbridge had already been installed and work on some of the other projects had also begun . |