Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] about the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 2 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 3 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 4 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 5 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 6 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 7 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 8 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 9 | You told them about the tubes in my daughter 's bag … |
| 10 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 11 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 12 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 13 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 14 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 15 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 16 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 17 | When you told me about the horoscopes , did n't I tell you I wanted to help ? |
| 18 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 19 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 20 | The doctor at the hospital told me about the pill , but said you have to take them regularly and if you forget even once , then you 'll get pregnant . |
| 21 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
| 22 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 23 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 24 | The night watchman told me about the incident in the morning . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , he told me about the necessity of recasting . |
| 26 | Now when I spoke to Mrs on the telephone last night she told me about the work you 've been doing on and I have looked at it and I 'm going to go over it again with you this afternoon because she thought it was very very good work . |
| 27 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 28 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 29 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 30 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |