Example sentences of "tell them [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as yesterday the Home Office told them no decision 's been made on its future . |
| 2 | He told them a story about his own children , when they were very young . |
| 3 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 6 | Paul doubted it , and his fears were confirmed when the assistant told them the price . |
| 7 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 8 | ‘ We told them the money would go to other children who do n't have any toys and , worse than that , do n't have any food or anywhere to live . ’ |
| 9 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 10 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 11 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 12 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 13 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 14 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
| 15 | who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles |
| 16 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 17 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 18 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 19 | He had told them a year ago that one of the main reasons he was interested in the paper was his conviction that the ‘ new realism ’ of print unions made it financially possible to seize the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 20 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 21 | I have n't told them a thing . ’ |
| 22 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 23 | There at the start of the working day , giving you , you 've got ta say that next step and tell them , okay , if you can say so what , you have n't told them the benefit . |
| 24 | And had she told them the reason that was at the back of the suggestion , they would not have believed that either . |
| 25 | I then tell them a story which they act out : one day the children all set off home only to find that a great big hole has opened up in the playground . |
| 26 | You ring them and tell them a tune to them . |
| 27 | Oh , tell them a joke here |
| 28 | Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure . |
| 29 | We tell them the price because we know the price almost immediately . |
| 30 | Tell them the company has n't taken a stance at all , that our analysts are still working on it . " |