Example sentences of "[coord] tell [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight Lorenzo gave me the doge 's ring , and told me the history of this lovely old house . |
| 2 | I was just as confused as that day she came in and told me the news . |
| 3 | Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ? |
| 4 | amazed I actually did erm what happened erm I was happened to be upstairs and my wife shouted quick quick there 's a zither , so I zoomed down here and the lady was still talking to you and a dialled well consequently I did n't get through for quite some time but I did eventually , erm your lady on the reception said well it 's gone now she said but I will give the lady 's telephone number and I spoke to the lady and told her the position and she says well if it 's not collected by so time I 'll g ring you back and I said well I 've been after one for a long long time she said well I ca n't understand it cos I 've been advertising it . |
| 5 | That afternoon in free time the sergeant stopped her , and told her the work had n't been done properly . |
| 6 | A passing student doctor clipped and tied the umbilical cord for her , and told her the baby was a girl and just fine . |
| 7 | Preston was astonished at himself for letting it happen , but when he 'd first suggested wearing a condom Emily had said , ‘ You do n't have to , ’ and told him the story about her abortion , and he 'd felt too sorry for her , and too embarrassed , to insist on doing so for health reasons . |
| 8 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 9 | I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content . |
| 10 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 11 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 12 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 13 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 14 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 15 | go and tell me a secret then |
| 16 | Just give me its name and tell me the place where I can find it . ’ |
| 17 | If I 'm , try and tell me the steps that you went through to work out how you were going to draw your pie charts . |
| 18 | Crawl out of that little shell of yours and tell me the truth . |
| 19 | So why do n't you put an end to it here and now and tell me the truth ? |
| 20 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 21 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 22 | Then she spotted a public telephone and decided she could not wait another minute to call Nick and tell him the job was completed . |
| 23 | Take him away , Sergeant , and tell him the facts of life ! |
| 24 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 25 | By itself it does n't prove a thing , but it 's my way of getting them to take me to Strathspeld for the funeral ; I can look McDunn in the eye and tell him the truth and he knows it 's the truth and he 'll take me . |
| 26 | I 'll have to wait until Bluebeard 's in a mellow mood and tell him the truth . |
| 27 | I dressed and rushed through the streets to Dana 's place , and after prolonged hammering on his door managed to wake him and tell him the news . |
| 28 | A little before midnight Miriam , who had been unable to sleep , came over to see him and tell him the news . |
| 29 | Give me five minutes , then call your Super and tell him the situation here . ’ |
| 30 | You ring them and tell them a tune to them . |