Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] tell [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Alexei did n't tell Sylvie about , what he spoke of to no one , was that last year he had spent with his father . |
| 2 | Miss Giles had earlier told Wells Street magistrates that she had not considered the film to be ‘ a very hot potato ’ and had not realised she was breaking the law when she showed it to about 120 people last April . |
| 3 | Woodward did n't tell Duncan that he had fought against giving out the names . |
| 4 | Lancaster had even told Jane he was searching for his wife . |
| 5 | No doubt Mrs Scott Wilson had already told Nicky . |
| 6 | Fred had once told Lorton that he reckoned to make his beer money from playing pool , and perhaps a little bit over for the dogs . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't Mossycop after all , ’ Phil Jordan went on to tell Coffin . |
| 8 | Gimona claims SCO had already told Olivetti it would be refocusing on Intel some time ago . |
| 9 | They would never see their parents in quite the same way again , and ironically it was apt that they should not , because Timothy Gedge had not told lies entirely . |
| 10 | He was 64 — and too late : Boswell had already told Lady Macleod , therefore Johnson could not avoid the embarrassment he obviously felt at the prospect of congratulations . |
| 11 | She flicked a look at Travis as , without so much as asking her to hold on , Mr Green went away to tell Rosemary that she was wanted on the phone . |
| 12 | After returning to Little Rock , Arkansas , from an eight-state , 4,000-mile flying campaign early in the day , Mr Clinton voted jokingly telling well-wishers he had cast his vote for Vice President for his running mate , Tennessee Senator Al Gore . |
| 13 | In chapter 17 it seems that Abraham did not tell Sarah that she would be having a child . |
| 14 | Patsy had always told Mrs Hogan that it was like being dead and going to Heaven to have a room of your own . |
| 15 | Anne ran down to tell Sarah before she left for work , and was surprised by how calmly her friend took the news . |
| 16 | Yanto went on to tell Billy about his experience the last time he had used Selwyn 's lavatory . |
| 17 | Charles did n't tell Jacqui about their new ally in investigation when they met up that evening to report progress . |
| 18 | Mother Francis had not told Eve about the letter . |
| 19 | Mr Ricks said Koresh had now told negotiators that astrological events were taking place that would meet his need for a sign from God . |
| 20 | ‘ We Queens must stick together , ’ Minton had once told John Norris Wood who had expressed surprise at Minton 's devotion to the Queen Mother . |
| 21 | Aitken did not tell Fraser of any suggestion of confidentiality since , as he later affirmed , he did not believe that any undertaking had been given or asked for . |
| 22 | What Myeloski did n't tell Duncan was that things were slowly beginning to take shape in his mind . |
| 23 | Dorothy had already told Isobel of the conversation that afternoon , so she was prepared ; but he found it difficult to get round to the real object of the visit . |
| 24 | Well Nick , Nick , Nick phoned me up and said do n't tell anybody but within a week Jaz knew cos Nick had actually told Jaz . |
| 25 | What Myeloski had not told Duncan was that the Cathedral of the Assumption was where the coronation of Russia 's rulers had traditionally taken place , that the last of these great ceremonies was in 1896 , when Nicholas was crowned as tsar and became Russia 's last Romanov emperor . |
| 26 | Lord Henry came over to tell Dorian that the man was dead . |
| 27 | Tess did not tell Marian everything , so Marian could not understand why the couple were apart . |
| 28 | Eliot had already told Browne that he could not promise to deliver the play until June at the earliest . |