Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] to tell the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exchange , the CFTC said , had failed to notify the agency of serious deficiencies in Stotler 's financial records as early as 1987 , failed to enforce its own capital requirements , and failed to tell the CFTC that Stotler was undercapitalised by as much as $1.1m between October 1989 and April 1990 . |
| 2 | The Wedding Present have signed to an extremely big record company and LIVED to tell the tale . |
| 3 | I 've had all that and lived to tell the tale . |
| 4 | Gunner Paul Johnson was impaled by a fence post — and lived to tell the tale . |
| 5 | This was a new series of lessons , rather grandly called Biology , in which he wandered happily around various special fascinations of his own and tried to tell the children something about natural selection and the origin of species . |
| 6 | But they set off in April — and forgot to tell the town hall . |
| 7 | Inevitably many book sand much schoolwork was destroyed by the fire but there is at least some good news … the Holy Tinity pet gerbils were rescued and survived to tell the tale . |
| 8 | No , Miss Cress told herself , and wanted to tell the daughter , angrily , no , this woman is not senile , she is not in need of a geriatric bed in a hospital , I could not take her , it would be ’ morally wrong , a sin . |