Example sentences of "tell [noun prp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went back and told Lilian the second twin , a boy , had died because the cord was round its neck . |
| 2 | He returned and told Allah the curious story , and Allah replied : " That was not really the idol speaking my word , that was me ! " |
| 3 | I think it would be better if I told Alan the bad news . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be better if I told Alan the bad news . ’ |
| 5 | He told Beverley the whole story of the stranger in the mist . |
| 6 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA top gun Elserino Piol told Unigram the real reason behind Olivetti 's embrace of Alpha was all the doubts about the wisdom of his MIPS strategy voiced to his boss Carlo di Benedetti : that caused the politically wary Piol to exert himself to come up with the Alpha alternative . |
| 7 | Supposedly , when I , when I told Nicola the other day that you reckon that I do n't do enough work , she says cor blimey she was shocked she was , shocked oh do it , do it as near to the microphone as you can mum |
| 8 | But I told Una the next morning when all of you left the house . |
| 9 | Then the mesh , she told Sally the next time she saw her , I 'm sorry I made that mistake about you having a sister she said to Sally , I 've written to tell mother you 've said you have n't one she must of been mistaken what your mother said . |
| 10 | Dining at Croisset one evening , Lapierre told Flaubert the scandalous history of Mademoiselle de P- . |
| 11 | I understand she told John the same story before she promised to marry him , then they agreed it should never be mentioned again . |
| 12 | Charles told Jacqui the new information he 'd gleaned , but met with little luck in following it up . |
| 13 | Porfiry 's words have a heightened transpersonal effect because Svidrigailov has just told Raskolnikov the same thing . |
| 14 | She had told Tilly the whole story , about the man she adored , and whose child she had brought into the world . |
| 15 | He 'd told Willi the plain facts . |
| 16 | The caption read ‘ Koo tells Mo the Royal Secret ’ . |
| 17 | I shall tell Alan the bad news . |
| 18 | Later in the day I would tell Jack the exact distance that the first bunker was from the tee . |
| 19 | And of course , being Daisy , she was quite unable to resist telling Perdita the thrilling news which she must n't tell anyone , that she 'd got the scholarship . |
| 20 | For a moment Merrill debated telling Richard the real reason . |
| 21 | Perhaps I thought that if it was Billy 's kid , then somebody had to tell Lucy the bad news and if she was skipping probation , it had better not be the cops . |