Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 2 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 3 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 4 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 5 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 6 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 7 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 8 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 9 | He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family . |
| 10 | Against a thumping back-beat , it told of a love affair between ‘ Harry and Johnny 's wife ’ . |
| 11 | Based on a story by Harry Nilsson , it told of a father competing with a TV set for his son 's attention . |
| 12 | Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old . |