Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion . |
| 2 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 3 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 4 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 5 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 6 | The man told her in a broad Scots accent that he was Maurice Langton , the manager . |
| 7 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 8 | The society told him in a letter : ‘ We would advise that as you retired from work in December of last year , you are no longer eligible for cover under this policy . |
| 9 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 10 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |