Example sentences of "[noun] tell [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries .
2 And her lips had closed firmly while her eyes told Zoe the rest .
3 Judy told Belinda the reading , and Belinda nodded .
4 At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for .
5 USL president Roel Pieper told Unigram the pact will allow SCO and USL to present a common uniform environment to ISVs .
6 Case White , as the invasion was codenamed , was aborted by a signal issued at about 7.30 p.m. on August 25 , because Mussolini and Ciano , when it came to it , summoned up the courage to tell Hitler the truth at last .
7 That 's why his desire to tell Pooh the truth will in fact make him tell Pooh what he believes , whether that is actually true or not .
8 Soho 's Timothy Brinkhurst told NME the song was written after the band became privy to information concerning the alleged infidelity of a leading politician , unnamed on the track for legal reasons .
9 Bench chairwoman Ann Middleton told Frak the offence was so serious that prison was the only way of dealing with it , because the public needed protecting from her .
10 Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking .
11 Thessy asked me what McIllvanney had wanted , but I said it had been nothing very much for I was too disgusted with the man to tell Thessy the truth .
12 Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame .
13 Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended .
14 Now she decides it is time to tell Pearl the truth .
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