Example sentences of "tell [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 2 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 3 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 4 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |
| 5 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 6 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 7 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 8 | Eye-witness accounts by British journalists told of the unprovoked and apparently indiscriminate shooting of civilians by British soldiers . |
| 9 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 10 | Mr Carberry said he would be shown the accommodation for nine above the centre and told of the residential project in Darlington town centre , which provides accommodation for three people . |
| 11 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 12 | The disbelief in the England camp was summed up by Tottenham Hotspur 's Alan Mullery who , told of the false accusation of theft , remarked : ‘ Are you kidding ? |
| 13 | Remember the firemen who told of the charred and blackened bodies of children they had to bring from the smoking ruins of homes ? |
| 14 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 15 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 16 | It was , eventually , their forward power that told on the Old Boys , with New Zealander No 8 Dale MacIntosh conspicuous in a constructive back row . |
| 17 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 18 | A horse that is empathic with another knows how the other feels without it being told through the usual senses of sight , hearing , touch , and smell . |
| 19 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 20 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 21 | The story of Dod , the Doric-speaking protagonist , and his encounters with Gaels and other inhabitants of the oil platform he works on , will be told for the first time on Saturday , 20 February , at Broadford . |
| 22 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 23 | The following morning , after the attack , the police were told about the abandoned Zodiac dinghy and also given the number of the camper van . |
| 24 | But suppose he is told about the new discovery chloroform , and says ‘ I 've no time for such newfangled nonsense ’ . |
| 25 | CLEVELAND 'S Transport 2,000 group will be told about the new Middlesbrough to Liverpool through train services by Richard Hast , marketing manager for Regional Railways , at its meeting tomorrow . |
| 26 | LIBERAL Democrats on Sheffield City Council are asking to be told about the financial state of GB Universiade , the company organising the World Student Games in 1991 , writes John Rodda . |
| 27 | The jokes told about the Irish in England are told about the Belgians in France . |
| 28 | In Acts 21 , we are told about the strong feelings of the rank-and-file members of the church in Jerusalem . |
| 29 | The judge then , bearing in mind , all that he knows , and all that he 's been told about the guilty person , proceeds to pass sentence . |
| 30 | A day or two later the policeman called and was told about the strange experiences . |