Example sentences of "[noun] tell [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 2 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 3 | The card told me the rest . |
| 4 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 5 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 6 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 7 | The oxygen isotonic ratios of the coral tell us the water temperature at the time the coral was growing . |
| 8 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 9 | The equipment can be switched on and off by two switches on the front of the unit , and a red light tells you the power is on . |
| 10 | Look back at the section on decimal place values and check : unc Notice that the place value of the last figure tells you the size of the denominator . |
| 11 | On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying : |
| 12 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 13 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 14 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 15 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 16 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 17 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 18 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 19 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 20 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 21 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 22 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 23 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 24 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 25 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 26 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 27 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 28 | So Ruth told her the truth , but not quite the whole truth since she kept Dick 's name out of it . |
| 29 | Ellie told him the truth . |
| 30 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |