Example sentences of "tell [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis has rejected his first approach and told Ferguson the England striker is not available … unless the bid is one he simply ca n't refuse . |
| 2 | Soho 's Timothy Brinkhurst told NME the song was written after the band became privy to information concerning the alleged infidelity of a leading politician , unnamed on the track for legal reasons . |
| 3 | Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough told NME the band 's November tour of Europe was abandoned as it clashed with the birth of guitarist Mark Day 's first child , despite rumours that Shaun Ryder 's drug problems are to blame . |
| 4 | As Dickon pushed the wheelchair all round the garden , he told Colin the names of all the plants . |
| 5 | She told Deval the newsagent all about her problem . |
| 6 | At the caravan site , a warden told Jean the number to look for . |
| 7 | He knew that , if he ever told Creed the story of the radios , Creed would understand . |
| 8 | Bench chairwoman Ann Middleton told Frak the offence was so serious that prison was the only way of dealing with it , because the public needed protecting from her . |
| 9 | USL president Roel Pieper told Unigram the pact will allow SCO and USL to present a common uniform environment to ISVs . |
| 10 | He told Nicola the programme was looking tired and the job was hers for the asking ’ |
| 11 | Judy told Belinda the reading , and Belinda nodded . |
| 12 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
| 13 | And her lips had closed firmly while her eyes told Zoe the rest . |
| 14 | One glance told Rachel the pilot had sustained serious chest injuries . |
| 15 | Have you told Bernard the story and he turned round and he said , who the fuck was it that you told her brother I 've seen Jason ! |
| 16 | Jackson , a woman who had told Robert the story of her dog 's operation no less than seventeen times . |
| 17 | And so he 'd told Celia the truth . |
| 18 | She 'd be forty now , if she 'd told Irene the truth . |
| 19 | He had n't strictly told Evelyn the truth . |
| 20 | The voice was the same tight voice that had told Clare the hospital ceiling was coming down . |
| 21 | I shall go and get ready , then drive into Edinburgh and finally tell Jake the truth about Ryan . |
| 22 | Tell Jennifer the number was written in 1926 and was in the original film of A Star is Born starring Judy Garland . |
| 23 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 24 | Now she was trapped until maybe tomorrow when tempers had cooled and Peter would tell Marc the truth and Marc would forgive Peter . |
| 25 | Should he tell Marshall the truth about the cannabis bed ? |
| 26 | Which tells Rose the kind of terms he is on with Phil . |
| 27 | Consumed with guilt , she looked questioningly at Bridget , wondering whether she should n't tell Geoffrey the truth . |
| 28 | But neither of them felt particularly inclined to get back and tell Evelyn the results of their investigation . |
| 29 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 30 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |