Example sentences of "to tell [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't really get a chance to tell my own story , and believe me , there is a story to tell . ’ |
| 2 | Moreover , the thin weal of the scar along his cheek was of a kind to tell its own story . |
| 3 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |
| 4 | In his The Loves of Mars and Venus the dancers had to tell their own story in different ways . |
| 5 | And as so often happens when ‘ victims ’ have the chance to tell their own story , the lasting impression is of human dignity . |
| 6 | Sister bodies in Europe have agreed to tell their own governments the same thing . |
| 7 | He told the shepherd to tell his own people that he would use these weapons to regain the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 8 | Harvey squeezed the sweat from his face with the edge of his hand and then he looked at his hand as though trying to tell his own fortune . |
| 9 | Tell me , Juliet , would you hesitate to tell your own doctor this problem that 's worrying you to death ? ’ |