Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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tell of a village changing slowly to a motorcar age , and perhaps forecasts the future in references that smithies have been replaced by garages and advertisements for petrol from the ‘ golden pump ’ . |
| 2 | Eyewitnesses told of the horror as shrapnel rained down on shoppers from two devices placed in cast-litter bins less than ten yards apart . |
| 3 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 4 | It is a pity that Berger inserts passages told by the girl , which do not fit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 8 | AXED Terry Wogan is on the hunt for guests with ‘ wacky , tacky ’ stories to tell in a bid to shed his bland image , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 9 | All praise was given to Dean Acheson , the conference chairman , for his handling of the ‘ Reds ’ ; and there were lurid tales told by a reporter who smuggled himself into the Soviets ' rented mansion disguised as a plumber ( ‘ socks and panties dangled … orange peels littered the floors … five to seven beds had been squeezed into every bedroom … ’ ) . |
| 10 | Many are the tales telling of the intelligence and concern shown by creatures of the animal kingdom . |
| 11 | John has some mysterious tales to tell about the castle : ‘ Visitors often say that they can smell newly-baked bread in the drawing room in the eastern tower . |
| 12 | All of us , I am sure , have tales to tell of the anguish and alienation that exists between parents and children . |
| 13 | But that last round of 18 pars told in the end . |
| 14 | Meetings were held in secret — the boy with the bus fare or the motor-bike waiting at the end of the lane — and elaborate lies told as a cover-up until my parents got wise to what was going on . |
| 15 | It was also a likely place for lies told by a courier to be exposed , by the host of speed that gather there , Famlio and otherwise . |
| 16 | There followed an outpouring of letters from Caroline and her daughters telling of the behaviour and convalescence of ‘ the most perfect Hero that ever breathed ’ . |