Example sentences of "tell [pron] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judith Chivers , an expert in time management , told them how to lead a less stressful life , and Steve Wellard , a Royal Scottish Consultant , explained the benefits of investing in a pension scheme . |
| 2 | Thirdly , they would need , in some sense , to be rational to have an effective means-ends reasoning that told them how to implement each desired goal . |
| 3 | By the time he had sorted everybody out and told them how to get to Bridlington it was too late for me to use my free pass and I had to pay half fare . |
| 4 | I 'd listened to my father when he told me how to act with the top players , and there was n't a blade of grass I did n't know at St Andrews . |
| 5 | It was my dreaming son who told me how to do this . |
| 6 | ‘ Declan told me how to disable it , but not how to mend it . |
| 7 | Now you told me how to start a sentence |
| 8 | And he told him how to listen to God — how any man who listens in the spirit of ‘ Not my will , but God 's ’ can receive definite , accurate direction and instruction . |
| 9 | I told him how to hold the ball and where to aim it . |
| 10 | He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right . |
| 11 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 12 | Someone told him how to get back to the Euston Road . |
| 13 | Even Lancaster found his patience strained when Douglas told him how to play his part . |
| 14 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 15 | Son told us how to do it once , so he got the book out and he said , oh , then he gave up in the end ! |
| 16 | Last month JOHN RUNDLE told us how to spawn the Neon Tetra — but the Cardinal tetra , apparently so similar , is a far greater challenge … |
| 17 | They told us how to live our lives , occupied us until we lived our life their way . |
| 18 | ‘ Mr Kettering might have told me how to dress . |
| 19 | I have n't told you how to d I 've told you how to change one third we 've looked at that have n't we and we and we 've worked out sort of how many twelfths would be in it and things like that . |
| 20 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 21 | But he was a bit flummoxed at the reality of Nuadu , because nobody had ever told him how to address a bastard of the Ireland 's Royal House . |
| 22 | And nobody had told her how to stop you know . |
| 23 | I 've just told it how to get into the TARDIS . |
| 24 | You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Now tell me how to deal with it . ’ |
| 26 | Do n't make me think about it , just tell me how to do it ! |
| 27 | Regarding your issue on Personal Violence , ( NI 187 ) , can you or any of your readers tell me how to differentiate between erotica and pornography ? |
| 28 | ‘ Tell me how to please you so that I can court you . ’ |
| 29 | be like that with me my dear , I said , tell me how to run my son 's business ! |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me how to help , ’ he said . |