Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 2 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 3 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 4 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 5 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 6 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 7 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 8 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 9 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 10 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 12 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 13 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 14 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 15 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 16 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 18 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 19 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 20 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 21 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 22 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 24 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 25 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 26 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 27 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 28 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 29 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 30 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |