Example sentences of "he tell [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 2 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 3 | He told of theological colleges where men were at risk of sexual advances , and expressed his scepticism about ‘ so-called ’ faithful and committed relationships between homosexuals . |
| 4 | He tells of one teacher who was interviewed by police for 12 hours , and then suspended from work for six months after one of his pupils accused him of touching her up . |
| 5 | and as the island burns he tells of two boys killed , and childish tears flow : |
| 6 | In his latest book he tells of sophisticated computers that can move tall buildings in the opposite direction to the tremors . |
| 7 | He tells with equal warmth and fondness of wandering club cricket in the Cotswolds , of bygone battles between those rugby Titans of the South West , Gloucester and Bath , and of the celebrated day in ‘ 77 when Somerset beat the Australians . |