Example sentences of "[vb past] tell [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 2 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 3 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 4 | Lisa felt the cold finger of panic momentarily touch her , just as it had when , over the phone earlier , the girl from the claims department had told her the awful truth . |
| 5 | She thought of the helpful policeman who had told her the wrong day for the train . |
| 6 | She said that Derek had told her the whole story . |
| 7 | The reception had told her the Scottish Football team were residents in the hotel which increased her hopes of picking up the odd tip in order to ease her way through University . |
| 8 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 9 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |