Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them a story about his own children , when they were very young . |
| 2 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 3 | There are the scribes and the Pharisees , and they began grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and Jesus told them a parable . |
| 4 | I 'm pretty sure he told me a boy , I think . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 6 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 7 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 8 | ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’ |
| 9 | I hate him now , because he told me a lie , that you would never return , and you have returned ! |
| 10 | Then she erm she told me a lie this time as well ! |
| 11 | A nurse told me a policeman wanted to see me , but visitors had been barred until tomorrow . |
| 12 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , Mum told me a couple of days go , and that he was working at OBEX . |
| 14 | Someone here once told me a story about the most notorious of the dictators who ruled this country at the turn of the century . |
| 15 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 16 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 17 | ‘ James told me a lot . |
| 18 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 19 | My father told me a joke once , about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice . |
| 20 | Tony said : ‘ The Tories told me a fairytale about being hard-up . ’ |
| 21 | yeah I told you a couple of weeks ago . |
| 22 | I told you a lie . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , I told you a lie about that . |
| 24 | I 'm a liar , I told you a lot of lies . ’ |
| 25 | I told him a leash was all I had . |
| 26 | Slowly , disconnectedly , prompted by him , I told him a bit about Alison ; remembering his frankness the night before , produced some of my own . |
| 27 | And colleagues told him a body matching his daughter 's description had already been found . |
| 28 | Once , when I told her a lie about what I was doing , in order to evade hostile questioning , she said , severely , ‘ You 're growing too like your father . ’ |
| 29 | Er but anyway er an and the address , full address was you see so a about a week I , I , I wrote , you know , to her and told her a bit about myself and er , you know , about , about seeing the programme etcetera and erm I got a letter did I get a letter back ? |
| 30 | I told her a cut-down ( but not a Bowdlerized ) version of the story , omitting Toby . |