Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] about [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 2 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 3 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 4 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 5 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 6 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 7 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 8 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 9 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 10 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 11 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 12 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 13 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 14 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 15 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 16 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 17 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 18 | You told them about the tubes in my daughter 's bag … |
| 19 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 20 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 21 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 22 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 23 | It was Mozaffar Alam , the Mughal historian , who told me about a book which became one of my favourite Delhi texts : the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli . |
| 24 | A friend once told me about a Xingu ‘ Indian ’ he met in Brazil who went to Sao Paulo , a gigantic city , for the first time . |
| 25 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 26 | Nobody told me about a bar graph . |
| 27 | A few months later someone in my house told me about an article in Time Out about the Liberation Network . |
| 28 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 29 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 30 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |