Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 2 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 3 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 4 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 5 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 6 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 7 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 8 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 10 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 11 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 12 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 13 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 14 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 15 | During the coming weeks , as I told you in our last programme , we are going to talk with people from outside the university who have contacts with us . |
| 16 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
| 17 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 18 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 19 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 20 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 21 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 22 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 23 | She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman . |
| 24 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 25 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 26 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 27 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 28 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 29 | She gave Anne potted biographies of all the other patients and told her about her own treatment . |
| 30 | He told her about his old school . |