Example sentences of "he tell [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each man took time to compliment her hair , her face , her clothes , her figure ; he told her a great deal about herself . |
| 2 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 3 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 4 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 5 | He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field . |