Example sentences of "[pers pn] tells [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Lady Wilde 's tale November Eve ( from Ancient Legends , Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland ) , she tells of a lad who was lured to a fairy revel where he met Finvarra and Oonagh . |
| 2 | She tells of the struggle between the administrators in Washington and the scientists in the laboratories . |
| 3 | It tells of a butcher returning home empty-handed from a market , and looking for lodgings in a village that lies on his route homewards as it is too late at night for him to reach home . |
| 4 | I wonder what it tells of the spirit of the age that the 100th birthday of one of our most distinguished writers should be greeted by a knocking biography . |
| 5 | With its doublet parable of the dragnet , it tells of the time of final judgment when , at the end of time , the |
| 6 | 190pp , hbk , retailing at £16.95 it tells of the crash-landing , the salvage and the restoration — brilliantly . |
| 7 | Drawing on the trauma Miller suffered when his wife enjoyed a lesbian affair with a failed artist , it tells of the trauma a writer suffers when his wife … |
| 8 | In the first volume of ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ Peter King told of the rescue and repair of the Duke taking the story through to 1985 and in the second volume he tells of the return to steam culminating in the blue riband run over the Settle and Carlisle in September 1990 . |
| 9 | Following a journey to Persia in 1889–90 of which he published an account in 1892 , he tells of the constitution in the 1840s of a Turco-Persian commission pursuant to the Second Treaty of Erzerum concluded at the prompting of Britain and Russia : |