Example sentences of "tell [noun prp] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 2 | This visit , he told Alice as the train took them back to London later that evening , had been a very happy one and it was his intention to go down to Calking to see them all again very soon . |
| 3 | He had told Ladislav when the Communists came to power : ‘ This is the beginnings of a police state . ’ |
| 4 | Charity explained that she had decided not to tell Clarissa until the news about Charles was definite too . |
| 5 | He had decided not to tell Marjorie until the offer was definite . |