Example sentences of "and tell [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A YOUNG man went into a mad panic and told a friend he had ‘ lobotomised ’ himself by taking too much ecstacy , shortly before he died . |
| 2 | However , a man claiming to be Wells contacted a national newspaper last week and told a journalist he was forced to steal the money by gangsters and never left the country . |
| 3 | Twelve years old , hopeful and wholesome as a morning daisy , she appeared one Wednesday on the Wogan Show and told a nation with honesty and enthusiasm how she had sailed across the Atlantic in her Optimist . |
| 4 | But a boy at Bodedern Secondary School had seen them and told a teacher , and Paul Jones said he showed the marks to three teachers at Gwalchmai school in 1985 and they telephoned the social services . |
| 5 | Students poked fun at Mr Hall and told a stream of dirty jokes . |
| 6 | The guide , who helped save Prince Charles 's life in an avalanche four years ago , dropped them and told the duchess : ‘ You can rely on me . ’ |
| 7 | Amelia Putt was called by the servants and told the man that her son was sick and seeing no one . |
| 8 | Then a police car pulled in behind , then another one , and four lovely bobbies got out and told the Americans — well , they must have been Americans , and huge they were — to put their guns away or be disarmed . |
| 9 | He remembered that a flight of twelve B–17s of the 7th Bomb Group were expected from the mainland en route to the Philippines and that the US carrier fleet at sea could send aircraft back to Oahu , so he dismissed the report and told the radar operators to ignore the plots . |
| 10 | He put a thousand-franc note on his bedside table and told the porter to let Modigliani in whenever he wanted . |
| 11 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 12 | He was optimistic about the future and told the others that the politicians would be driven out after the war and the people would find their inspiration in science , technology , work and sport . |
| 13 | He moved the case to one side , rolled back the carpet and told the others to sit by the bookcase . |
| 14 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
| 15 | He said nothing for a minute or two and told the person next to him that he was having a bad dream when the stranger woke him up . |
| 16 | I took a picture last night and put a plastic bag on and told the farmer we were n't going to put him in jail here and now . |
| 17 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 18 | FORMER England boss Bobby Robson yesterday spoke of his sympathy for beleaguered successor Graham Taylor and told the critics : ‘ Let's get round and support him . ’ |
| 19 | Neighbours and people who drank there say they noticed he was missing and told the council . |
| 20 | So he disconnected it and told the council it did n't work . |
| 21 | Foggerty , curious , asked Sam whether it was true that Nutty was continuing with her captaincy of a tetrathlon team : ‘ That fellow called with those pistols and told the head he 'd come to train them or something . |
| 22 | That evening G. is phoned by the company and told the problem is solved and the leaking machine located . |
| 23 | This delegation apparently then returned to Moscow and told the members of the future SCSE ( excluding Tizyakov and Starodubtsev ) , as well as Lukyanov and Foreign Affairs Minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh , that they had found Gorbachev seriously ill . |
| 24 | The runner has gone into it and told the story of the battle . |
| 25 | The third row followed suit and before long enough people were laughing and questioning that Beecher raised his hand and told the story so that all could hear . |
| 26 | One night , Grandfather Denknetzeyan sat down and told the story of his escape from Russia to his grandson . |
| 27 | But when Dorian arrived and told the story of his love , Basil became a little happier . |
| 28 | She brushed aside the accusations and told the viewers : ‘ Heck , if you do n't like it , do n't vote for him . ’ |
| 29 | Richardson said : ‘ Stuart has demanded a steely band of professionalism from the squad and told the players to give everything . |
| 30 | ‘ You would be a braver man than I am if you went into our dressing room and told the players that was how you thought of them , ’ said Robertson , rebuking the journalist who ventured the opinion that any squad minus nine of its original complement was necessarily sub-standard . |