Example sentences of "tell [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 2 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 3 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 4 | At a party at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate his forthcoming 86th birthday on Christmas Day , Lord Grade told of a tricky moment during the filming of his film Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 5 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 6 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |
| 7 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 8 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 9 | Mr Carberry said he would be shown the accommodation for nine above the centre and told of the residential project in Darlington town centre , which provides accommodation for three people . |
| 10 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 11 | The disbelief in the England camp was summed up by Tottenham Hotspur 's Alan Mullery who , told of the false accusation of theft , remarked : ‘ Are you kidding ? |
| 12 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 13 | He could also be excellent company , with a fund of stories that he told with an exquisite sense of timing , though such good moments were rare for he preferred to brood savagely over life 's injustices ; the chief of which was the inexplicable existence of Roman Catholics . |
| 14 | But this was dear old Mr Rabinowitz himself , spruced up , a new suit , who told in a quavering voice how this perfect stranger had come to his aid after the Blackshirts had smashed open his tailor 's shop . |
| 15 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 16 | The story of the rise and fall of this great coal port and of the fortunes of the people who lived and worked here is told through a dramatic interpretation set in a simulated dockland environment . |
| 17 | Always told as a comic story . |
| 18 | John Reilly , 47 , took three plastic sacks from the driveway of Sunday Times managing editor Roger Eglin 's home in Teddington , west London , nearby Isleworth Crown Court was told during a two-day trial . |
| 19 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 20 | But suppose he is told about the new discovery chloroform , and says ‘ I 've no time for such newfangled nonsense ’ . |
| 21 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 22 | The judge then , bearing in mind , all that he knows , and all that he 's been told about the guilty person , proceeds to pass sentence . |
| 23 | SINCE news broke of his secret love affair with Annie Murphy , tales about Eamonn Casey , the former Bishop of Galway rival those told about the unfrocked Vicar of Bray . |
| 24 | They believed that for once the truth should be told about the difficult life Diana has led and , for the most part , still leads . |
| 25 | And the good news was that we were told of a live album for release early next year that should capture the music more honestly than either of his two studio outings have managed to do so far . |
| 26 | In fact , the day before the I Love Lucy St Patrick 's Day , she 'd been told of a good job with the British Council in the Gilbert Islands . |
| 27 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 28 | When he was told of a young man who wished to become a poet , Eliot replied , " He 's getting ready for a sad life " , and Ronald Duncan said that during this period he looked " miserable and unwell " and " began to affect many signs of premature old age " . |
| 29 | A lovely story is told of a young herdsman who saw one of the Gwraggedd Annwn rowing on a lake in a golden boat . |
| 30 | ‘ I was once told of a favourite phrase of Harold Wilson 's : ‘ A decision deferred is a decision made . ’ |