Example sentences of "[noun] tell me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 2 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 3 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 4 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 5 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 6 | At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Robert told me in quiet tones and averted eyes how he climbed the stairs behind the prostitute in this house where she conducted her trade . |
| 8 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 9 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 10 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 11 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 12 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 13 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 14 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 15 | The death grant has been finished quite a long time ago , but there was the death grant erm because I can remember you know this , people telling me about this . |
| 16 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 17 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |
| 18 | George thought shrugged and said : ‘ Sprague told me in deepest confidence but … |
| 19 | My local office has plenty of leaflets telling me about wonderful things like savings schemes and child benefit , but rarely stocks the mysterious forms that are supposed to accompany them . |
| 20 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 21 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |