Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to tell the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , thanks be to God , some were saved to tell the news . |
| 2 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 3 | She was going to tell the truth . |
| 4 | I was just wondering when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was going to tell the House how his Government intend to get out of the recession that they have created . |
| 5 | He was starting to tell the truth — that was what it was . |
| 6 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |