Example sentences of "[vb past] to tell [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 2 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 3 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device . |
| 6 | Mr Major got off to a stickier start with President Mitterrand , who neglected to tell him about the Gulf peace plan that France was about to launch in mid-January . |
| 7 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 8 | Then I had to tell her about the visit — about most of it — from Sergia and her cohorts . |
| 9 | And then we had to tell her in the end ! |
| 10 | I was afraid to speak to these important people but I had to tell them about the danger . |
| 11 | He came back from London and someone had to tell him at the station . |
| 12 | I had to tell you about the risk , but I 've done this operation on bitches who were older than Sandy , and they were all successful . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He wanted to tell me about the lion hunt Claudia organized . |