Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 2 | I tried to tell her about the horrible man on the doorstep but she would n't listen . |
| 3 | ‘ I tried to tell her in a matter-of-fact way that when you die you leave your body behind and go to Heaven . |
| 4 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 5 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 6 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 7 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 8 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 9 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 10 | Mr Connon when I arrived told me about the letter Jenny received and also about your warning to him that there might be phone calls also . |
| 11 | Mum was waiting up for us when we got indoors , but before she could speak Mary began telling her about the agreement she had with Albert to pay for the wedding and this took the wind out of her sails . |
| 12 | Soon she began telling me of a tasteless fellow-passenger of hers who , at this time the day before , had kept his nose buried in Doctor Zhivago while they flew in exquisite weather over the Gulf of Corinth . |
| 13 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 14 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 15 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 16 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 17 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
| 18 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 19 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 20 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 21 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 22 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |
| 23 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 24 | However , he did tell me about the Women 's Therapy Centre . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , she did tell me in a way . |
| 26 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 27 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 28 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 29 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 30 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |