Example sentences of "[noun] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 43-year-old star of The Charmer telephoned the BBC moments after its Watchdog programme told of the plight of mother-of-three Jenny Graham . |
| 2 | John Rhys tells of a fenoderee who was given a suit of clothes ; so disgusted was he with this ‘ bribe ’ that he placed a curse on the family for each item . |
| 3 | Levi tells of the bond between himself , a Jew , and , Sandro , a fellow chemistry student and loner , as Fascism 's iron hand grips Europe . |
| 4 | Popular unrest had begun to develop even before his death — commissions were appointed to investigate insurrections in Kent on 2 February and in Surrey on 11 April , and a London chronicle tells of the arrest and execution , at an unspecified date , of a rebel leader known as Bluebeard. ( 7 ; 22 , p.158 ) By the end of May the Kentishmen were marching on London , in June there was a skirmish with royal forces , and they presented a formal complaint of their grievances . |
| 5 | Reyburn tells about the panic before the coronation of the present Queen when the special needs of the assembled elderly peers had to be anticipated . |
| 6 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 7 | In illustration of the absurdity of this ‘ scientific ’ arrogance , and teaching a lesson which is just as applicable today , he appeals to a story Gassendi told about a friend who watched a fight between a louse and a flea through a microscope . |
| 8 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 9 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 10 | Her descriptions tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 11 | Carol tells of a life going downhill after she became pregnant at 14 , of a descent into doctors ' prescriptions ( ‘ Largactil , Valium , you name it … |
| 12 | One sermon to urge the duty of penance and confession tells of a woman who had committed a sin which she could not bring herself to confess for shame . |
| 13 | She would make it up as she went along — like a story told to a child at bedtime ; like a clever lie that relies as much on the truth as on deception . |
| 14 | But then life is invariably ultimately hard on someone with pretensions beyond their talents and a style best encapsulated in the story told about the boy in his Taunton constituency who asked him what the time was . |
| 15 | CD is alluding to a story told about the prince of dandies , Beau Brummel ( 1778–1840 ) , who was once asked by a lady whether he had ever tasted vegetables . |
| 16 | Or you could say that from the story told under the palm-tree or round the winter hearth there developed the novel . |
| 17 | From this the importance of Rorschach grew in the Middle Ages , a story told by the town 's many handsome old houses , with their enchantingly carved oriels . |
| 18 | ‘ Loughguile had some young players on their side in the ‘ semi ’ and perhaps our experience told in the end , ’ says a Cushendall spokesman . |
| 19 | Oslear was determined to see the truth told about the ball-tampering . |
| 20 | Eyewitnesses told of the horror as shrapnel rained down on shoppers from two devices placed in cast-litter bins less than ten yards apart . |
| 21 | An old folktale tells of a bwca who was tricked by a servant girl into drinking urine instead of the customary cream . |
| 22 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 23 | After his death , his wife told of an occasion , when Higgins was at the height of his medical practice , and when a young woman was ‘ seized with such a violent haemorrhage that the only expedient was transfusion ’ . |
| 24 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 25 | It is a pity that Berger inserts passages told by the girl , which do not fit . |
| 26 | Reception children are used to stories told in the form of consecutive images through comic strips ; they 're also familiar with " freeze frame " on video . |
| 27 | However he does admit ‘ madrigalisms ’ such as the agonized chromatic harmonies in which the Evangelist tells of the crown of thorns . |
| 28 | Keith Richards tells with a mixture of jealousy and amazement the story that the guitar classes John Lee conducts at home are entirely made up of young girls . |
| 29 | The story Sam tells about the frog is sad because it 's true … ’ |
| 30 | At last week 's meeting members took a trip down memory lane with Ron Beach , who had many fascinating stories to tell about the village — and he also prompted a few reminiscences from others who had tales to tell . |