Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 2 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 3 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 4 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 5 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 6 | Well , this , I told you about this French boy that phoned , that contacted me , he 's erm , my name is , I 'm nineteen , I 'm a student at Harlow College , I 'm studying English foreign language and Law A Level , if there 's an Amnesty International I would like to set up a group in the college I hope you 're involved in local groups are writing you to receive about me , and information about the local group . |
| 7 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 8 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 9 | Much of what Patsy told her on that important morning , must have been therapeutic to Patsy , baffling to Shanti , and much of it unknown to me . |
| 10 | One of the Kirkwoods from Woodbrook had told me about these wondrous isles , where fiddlers played Gaelic melodies to fisherfolk who danced on the quayside . |
| 11 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 12 | She does n't know , of course ; I 've never told her of this tiny , precise pleasure of the night . |
| 13 | And why had he told her about that unlocked door ? |
| 14 | Tell them about these two . |
| 15 | Harold , rather forgetful of his purpose , proceeded to upbraid the guests in a positively violent fashion and then , when he had run out of personal ammunition , he said to Haines , ‘ Joe , tell them of any specific complaints that we have . |
| 16 | I find it almost amusing to listen to several of my contemporaries tell me about that ill-fated occasion and how they found a means of getting over the Alps . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me about this young man , Hassan . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Tell me about this new girl , ’ Emma said . |
| 19 | ‘ Tell me about these risk-taking hobbies of mine . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me about those three-storey houses that stand at each corner of the crossroads . |
| 21 | paper is A four , you fold it into erm in there they got er c three or four paper as well , they tell you about all these er tutorials . |
| 22 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 23 | and rise and fall about twelve feet , they tell you in that new book you 've got there , the rise and fall . |
| 24 | He had told her , so that today he could be free — free to go to Charity and tell her about this astonishing feeling inside of him . |
| 25 | When you call us on and tell us of any defective traffic signals or pedestrian crossings , we will get things moving again . |
| 26 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 27 | ‘ Why did n't you tell them about that ghastly couple — Grimwood and Steve ? |
| 28 | It is too late now to ask the right hon. Gentleman what he intends to do about that , as he will lose his job over it on 9 April , but can he tell me of any other Government who have allowed their textile industry to bleed to death in that fashion without helping it ? |
| 29 | And she sent me to a mother and toddler group , I mean , she did n't tell me about any self-help groups , it 's mother and toddler , she just said take you and the baby and go to mother and toddler and that 'll be it . |
| 30 | It can tell you of any local registers . |