Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [verb] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 2 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 3 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 4 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 5 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |
| 6 | After they had shaken hands , he said : ‘ Dr Watson has told me everything , Mrs Lyons . |
| 7 | ‘ Lima is now an Andean city , ’ Washington Delgado had told me , ‘ overcrowded with landless campesinos . ’ |
| 8 | Horace Evans had told me that Anthony Eden would get better , and I had relied on him going on . |
| 9 | Some A.S.M. members have told me that current official policy is wrong . |
| 10 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 11 | A Downing Street statement in the Prime Minister 's name said : ‘ King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has told me that his government has made available £1.5 billion for the Al Yamamah government-to-government defence programme . |
| 12 | I had wept back in the office after Mr Charles had told me the Scharnhorst was steaming up the channel unchallenged . |
| 13 | Sir Henry had told me how he gave his old clothes to Barrymore . |
| 14 | Hugo Brassard keeps telling me not to give up hope . ’ |
| 15 | Mrs Singh agreed to tell me when she heard from the doctor . |
| 16 | Pahdra Singh has told me that although Proby 's cousin did manage to register the stand as a car , he did so describing it as a 1964 Skoda with 300,000 miles on the clock . |
| 17 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 18 | As the girl ran off , her pretty face glowing with happiness , Victoria said , ‘ Mrs Richards has told me her story , Shelley . |
| 19 | ‘ Only what Mrs Lavender has told me herself . ’ |
| 20 | He had been right , I thought ; in spite of what the girls and Mrs McDougall had told me , the whole idea of a ‘ mystery ’ was , in this place , wrong and irritating . |
| 21 | Ben Gunn had told me his boat was hidden near the white rock , and I found that rock farther along the beach . |
| 22 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 23 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 24 | ‘ Doctor Reid did tell me about Tiare 's daughter . ’ |
| 25 | Alec Smith has told me of his studies on the bottom sediment of Lake Windermere in north-west England . |
| 26 | I looked at him curiously for Master Benjamin and Doctor Agrippa had told me about him on our journey to the castle . |
| 27 | Governor Trefusis had told me there would be two real people around this Dream . |
| 28 | ‘ Like , we know The Wedding Present and Dave Gedge has told me before that he 's jealous of us cos we can go off on tangents and do our own thing without losing an audience . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Like , we know The Wedding Present and Dave Gedge has told me before that he 's jealous of us cos we can go off on tangents and do our own thing without losing an audience . ’ |
| 30 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |