Example sentences of "[verb] tell [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , I 've heard tell from the Bishop 's secretary that yours used to be the best Mystery in the land , bar none . |
| 2 | The tinners of St. Austell heard tell of the reception planned for them and ‘ … thought it prudent not to come ’ . |
| 3 | Teacher : Try to tell about the story you have read . |
| 4 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 5 | I had to tell at the table . |
| 6 | She wanted to tell of the flogging he 'd had , not in far off Jamaica , but here in England , but the forbidding frown and her own instinctive suspicion of strangers kept her silent . |