Example sentences of "tell [noun prp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself . |
| 2 | ‘ I told Warton about the descent , then the ditching ahead of us , which seemed to be a perfectly controlled set-down ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 4 | ‘ I told Wickham on the telephone , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She told Maggie about the palace of the Princess Tang Li , north of Beijing , which she had visited with her own beautiful mother , Maggie 's great-grandmother . |
| 6 | ‘ Then he wo n't have told you what he told Heather about the evening you dined there . ’ |
| 7 | He told Georgiades about the killing . |
| 8 | So I told Helen about the hunger-strike . |
| 9 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 10 | You were asked whether you told Mr about the solicitors letter |
| 11 | Mum told Mary about the changes in the arrangements but Mary was n't at all pleased . |
| 12 | Instead , to lighten things , he told Emily about the marbles . |
| 13 | When I told Robins of the effort it must have required to transport the heavy materials by hand he just laughed . |
| 14 | Jack told Ho about the changes in his life : his mother 's re-marriage , the harsh reality of the north-east , Tina 's rough charm and her painful bonding to her family , and finally Ken 's so-called accident . |
| 15 | I told Debbie about the house only John did n't know . |
| 16 | I told Debbie about the house because they 'd quarrelled , she and her father , and I was afraid that if she did n't try and make it up with him he would change his mind . |
| 17 | Just to round the day off , the Mayor of Los Angeles , Norris Poulson , told Khrushchev at the banquet in his honour that he was well-known to Americans as the man who had promised to bury them . |
| 18 | As briefly as possible , Adam told Coy about the computer virus , about the death of the American agents and about Trimmler 's conversation with Goodenache . |
| 19 | Paul described the members of the church as the men of God , when he told Timothy about the value of God 's word . |
| 20 | ‘ Sir Bryan 's giving his putter hell , ’ he told Richie on the radio . |
| 21 | As the drinks were being distributed , Seb told Jacob of the attitude of the landlord of the Swan Inn . |
| 22 | James Gilbey told Diana on the telephone : ‘ I love you Squidgy ’ . |
| 23 | Although he told Swarf about the visitors , the shapechanger refused to listen to his worries about the red death . |
| 24 | ‘ Transformed , my darling , absolutely transformed ! ’ she told Nora over the phone . |
| 25 | She felt unclean and unworthy , rather as she hoped that her mother , in her dark moments , must feel about Mr Stacey — and she never told Nora of the incident . |
| 26 | He told Elizabeth of the meal in the dining room , with the butler and maids serving on and made her giggle at his father 's summing up of the Dowager Lady Lassiter . |
| 27 | She knew she would feel a good deal less proud when she told Alice about the penalty clause . |
| 28 | Ceauşescu told Newsweek in the autumn of his life that the cult was not his doing . |
| 29 | For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign . |
| 30 | So er they told Mi told Michael in the car the car this morning , point blank that we 've been getting run around ! |