Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
2 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
3 | Sir Austin Pearce , one of the NRM 's guardians , told us via muffled a Tannoy ( uncannily similar to a real station announcement ) that the NRM would not merely look to the past , but also to the present and the future of rail . |
4 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
5 | Agnes duly went into labour about lunch-time one hot still day , pouring sweat and Omming to herself while my father boiled lots of water and things and Mrs Clamp dabbed Agnes 's brow and like as not told her of all the women she 'd known who had died in childbirth . |
6 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
7 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
8 | That was a sort of temperance league , you know erm where they used to erm er sort of er tell you about all the evils of strong drink . |
9 | I was just going to tell them about all the things that were on my mind , about my dad and about Jesus and about aliens taking over the … |
10 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |