Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] about the " 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 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 23 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |
| 24 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 25 | TV told me about the victim of child molestation who claimed , ‘ I owe my analyst my life ’ . |
| 26 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 27 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 28 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 29 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 30 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |