Example sentences of "tell [pron] [conj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 2 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 3 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 4 | The provisional government 's relief and rehabilitation commissioner Yilma Kasaye told her that 7,000,000 Ethiopians were affected by drought and famine . |
| 5 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 6 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 7 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 8 | So you go in a tell them that six windows are gon na cost them four and a half thousand and they go |
| 9 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 10 | A description in G.Paynes ' Collectania Cantiana tells us that four vases of black ware , one of reddish colour , two cups of imitation Samian ware , two black paterae and the neck of a large goblet with handle were found at a depth of four feet at the feet of ten human skeletons . |
| 11 | Does he know that thousands of construction workers in Wales are out of work , yet Shelter Cymru tells us that 63,000 families in the Principality have experienced homelessness in the past year ? |