Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 2 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 3 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 4 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 5 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 6 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 7 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 8 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 9 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 10 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 11 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 13 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 14 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 15 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 16 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 17 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 18 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 19 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 20 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 21 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 22 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 23 | Charles reproved her for rushing on ahead of his story , and told her about this Sergeant lurking within like a spider waiting for a juicy fly . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , he sees me , ’ Belinda told her with some spirit . |
| 25 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 26 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 27 | Life can take many strange twists , ’ Jonas told her in all seriousness , then softened the whole with a laugh . |
| 28 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 29 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 30 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |