Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 2 | They told me Mrs Asmoyah was ‘ critical ’ — hospitals are only generous with the truth when it 's bad — and if I was her husband , father , mother or sole blood relative , I could visit her any time , but preferably after 7.0 a.m . |
| 3 | Told me Moira F. had written to him , anxious for news about the glass , complaining that I never answered the phone , never replied to her letters , what should he tell her ? |
| 4 | ‘ You told me Zbigniew Nowak was killed in a car accident . |
| 5 | ‘ Colin Todd told me centre half was my position , but he listened to the crowd and made me a scapegoat after a Cup defeat at Aston Villa . |
| 6 | ‘ Look — before my mum died she told me Jozef Taczek had confessed to her , confessed that he 'd murdered Mills because of the betrayal . |
| 7 | Of course I agreed , and as we sat down to dinner , Herbert told me Miss Havisham 's sad story . |
| 8 | Mr Jaggers told me Miss Havisham wished to see me on business , so I said I would go the next day . |
| 9 | My next-door neighbour Elsie Dobson told me Clara Orchard took the baby out in the fog and the child got a terrible cough . |
| 10 | ‘ She told me Lucasta Redburn 's dead . |
| 11 | I was pleased as punch when yer farvver came 'ome an' told me Joe Maitland 'ad offered 'im that job . |
| 12 | What if I told you Nicola Schreider is my ex -fiancée ? |
| 13 | I told you Eric Wheeler . |
| 14 | And I told you Mrs Koo knows all about it . ’ |
| 15 | I nearly told him Coney Island was also known as Sodom by the Sea , but thought better of it . |
| 16 | Staff contacted him the following day and told him Mrs Bennett had arrived at 2.30am and was unconscious . |
| 17 | I told him to ring I told him ring Apex up in case they were recruiting . |
| 18 | When he got there , with his thoughts no doubt fixed on their future , the switchboard operator told him Johnny Beerling , controller of Radio One , was on the line . |
| 19 | Mr Sugar , in his sworn statement , claims Mr Venables told him Mr Clough liked a ‘ bung ’ personal payment if deals were to go smoothly . |
| 20 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 21 | He told her Ford Madox Ford 's delightful story of the portrait-sculpture of Our Lady of the Castle from St Etienne des Grès . |
| 22 | He told her Great-Uncle Hilbert 's ashes were the contents of an urn-shaped Crown Derby sweets-jar that stood on the drawing-room mantelpiece . |
| 23 | Whatever else he might be , instinct told her Nicolo Sabatini was not a man to force himself on a woman . |
| 24 | What about the people who wrote or told us life stories : how far can they be taken as typical ? |
| 25 | But the school told us Dean Hall is for children with moderate learning difficulties . |
| 26 | WORKING MUMS : what you told us SOLVENT ABUSE The tragic waste of a boy called Danny WIN ! |
| 27 | ‘ The doctor had told him contact sport was out , but he was determined to hang in there . |
| 28 | East Clwyd coroner , David Jones , said Foreign Office officials had told him Mr Furse , of Nerquis Hall , Nercwys , near Mold , had been involved in an incident at Parati on May 30 . |
| 29 | Piggott has come under fire from American observers following Walter Swinburn 's report that the veteran jockey had told him Mr Brooks ‘ moved terrible ’ going to the start . |
| 30 | THE ‘ Gay ’ club fraud trial in Belfast has been told he Crown case was ‘ demonstrably wrong ’ in everything said to the jury during opening submissions . |