Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 2 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |
| 8 | When I returned , Jan looked at me knowingly , as if darling Basil had told her about my embarrassing hump , third leg and cocaine habit . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me about my real father . |
| 10 | I must tell you of my latest accessory , an electronic wool winder . |
| 11 | Well I did n't tell you about my hot date on Wednesday . |
| 12 | I have something to tell you — I must tell you about my past life ! ’ |
| 13 | I did n't feel I could tell her on my own . |
| 14 | He felt that I should tell her on my own . |
| 15 | For example , ‘ Ladies and Gentlemen , I am very glad to have this opportunity of telling you about my magnificent stamp collection . |
| 16 | I 'm not really used to being so personal or so open about things in public but want to tell you of my great sadness in life . |
| 17 | This story will , I hope , be convincing , for it is the way I have tried to tell it to my neuroscientific colleagues , but it will be in one important sense economical with the truth . |