Example sentences of "tell [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 2 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 3 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 4 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 5 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 6 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 7 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 8 | Geoff told me a disgusting one this morning . |
| 9 | Another school-dinner lady in Wigan told me a typical tale : |
| 10 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 11 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 12 | ‘ The vice-minister of the atomic energy industry told me a nuclear plant was being built to cope with the power shortage , ’ said the defector . |
| 13 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 14 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 15 | He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field . |
| 16 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
| 17 | just told me a few minutes ago ! |
| 18 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 19 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 20 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 21 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 22 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 23 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 25 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 26 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 27 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 28 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 29 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 30 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |