Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 2 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 3 | In Lady Wilde 's tale November Eve ( from Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland ) , she tells of a lad who was lured to a fairy revel where he met Finvarra and Oonagh . |
| 4 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 5 | But how could you tell with a Time Lord ? |
| 6 | Could n't you tell with the meter er th th th the control whether it 's worth it or not ? |
| 7 | Ca n't you tell by the designer hat ? |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't you tell by the sponge cake ? ’ |
| 9 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 10 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 11 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 12 | In Scotland , they tell of a madman of the woods who sounds like our Sweeney . |
| 13 | Instead , they tell of the support they have received from their extended family in Kirkby . |
| 14 | They tell of an army of warriors who fought a terrible war . |
| 15 | Which would seem to imply that he murdered Christian to prevent her telling about the murder of the widow . |
| 16 | Clara did not understand this story , but it seemed to her to tell of an emotion a size larger than pathos . |
| 17 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 18 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 19 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 20 | He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family . |
| 21 | Against a thumping back-beat , it told of a love affair between ‘ Harry and Johnny 's wife ’ . |
| 22 | Based on a story by Harry Nilsson , it told of a father competing with a TV set for his son 's attention . |
| 23 | Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old . |
| 24 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 25 | I wonder what it tells of the spirit of the age that the 100th birthday of one of our most distinguished writers should be greeted by a knocking biography . |
| 26 | With its doublet parable of the dragnet , it tells of the time of final judgment when , at the end of time , the |
| 27 | 190pp , hbk , retailing at £16.95 it tells of the crash-landing , the salvage and the restoration — brilliantly . |
| 28 | Drawing on the trauma Miller suffered when his wife enjoyed a lesbian affair with a failed artist , it tells of the trauma a writer suffers when his wife … |
| 29 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 30 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |