Example sentences of "[adv] tell me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So tell me about the twins , ’ I said , not because I was interested , but because I wanted the senator to talk while I dreamed up a strategy to turn down his request . |
| 2 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 3 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 4 | You 'd better tell me about the other night . |
| 5 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 6 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 7 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 8 | ‘ And I 'd be grateful if you 'd just tell me without the need to shake it out of you . ’ |
| 9 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 10 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 11 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 12 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 13 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 14 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |
| 15 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 16 | ‘ Now tell me about the finding of the body . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Pray tell me of the king your brother 's plan , my lord , ’ she said softly . |
| 18 | Well tell me about the furniture that you brought |
| 19 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 20 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 21 | You never even , you never told me about the one |