Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 2 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 3 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 4 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 5 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 6 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 7 | He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom . |
| 8 | He told me the story of the house . |
| 9 | Tonight Lorenzo gave me the doge 's ring , and told me the history of this lovely old house . |
| 10 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 11 | And I assume it was your sister who told you the name of the family I was looking for ? ’ |
| 12 | I told you the way of that . ’ |
| 13 | But , erm , I told you the story of our cleaning lady . |
| 14 | For the rest of the journey I told him the plot of My Fair Lady . |
| 15 | Leo had chuckled when Barbara told him the story of Hubert 's conversion . |
| 16 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 17 | I think Joe told him the name of his attackers , and it 's obviously someone … someone … " |
| 18 | Did n't know you , anything about you , and the only thing I can think of to explain it is that Maura , Donal 's sister , told him the name of the family I was looking for . |
| 19 | Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 . |
| 20 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 21 | Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter . |
| 22 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 23 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 24 | That same day , before the galley returned , Bridhe told her the story of the strange baby . |
| 25 | While she filled the tank of the lady 's car she told her the legend of the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 26 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 27 | Belov told her the name of the village . |
| 28 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |
| 29 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 30 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |