Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |
| 32 | I wish I could talk longer because I 'd like to tell you about the lungs , but er , time 's still . |
| 33 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 34 | ‘ Remember to tell them about the hair , ’ Cal added . |
| 35 | This time when he slid the door back , she moved towards him , as if expecting him to let her pass , beginning to tell him about the incident at the Dragon Cloud , the wicker basket of leftovers from the teahouse held out before her . |
| 36 | But I hardly like to tell you about the disaster that befell Angela within the next few minutes . |
| 37 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 38 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 39 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 40 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 41 | Or , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , I am delighted to be invited to tell you about the amusing experiences I have had while travelling/teaching as a , etc . ’ |
| 42 | He could have told her about the IRA kidnapping him , but that would have alarmed her and the whole household . |
| 43 | ‘ If she knew about the book , he may have told her about the contents , too . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 45 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 46 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 47 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 48 | I should have told you at the beginning . |
| 49 | In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics . |
| 50 | Because one of the commitments I hope John er may have told you on the phone , one of the parts of the contract we have with G A is that they provide a list of businesses . |
| 51 | When er I I John I hope will have told you on the phone that you have no responsibility for setting the assignments . |
| 52 | Well I 'll tell you what I I you know seriously er with what Norman would have told you on the phone self employed commission only erm if you er I I 'm surprised you came to see us . |
| 53 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 54 | But if you do n't have to contact the inland revenue , because you do n't need to prove the will because the estate is too small then you do n't have to tell him about the jointly owned property . |
| 55 | mam , mam I 've got twelve , I says well you do n't have to tell us in the middle , wait until you 've finished then , tell us how many you 've got . |
| 56 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 57 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 58 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 59 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 60 | Undermining his mother 's social prestige was-one thing , having to tell her about the book himself was another . |