Example sentences of "tell me of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 2 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 3 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 4 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 5 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 6 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 7 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 8 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 9 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 10 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 11 | He told me of the way the rivers were kept permanently netted for fish , of the illnesses associated with la Sologne , and of its politics . |
| 12 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 13 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 14 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 15 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 16 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 17 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 18 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 20 | Mrs Peterson and the others have told me of the delicacies baked and brought with love , from kitchens in Comely Bank , Trinity , the Inch and other even further-flung parts of the City . |
| 21 | ‘ Pray tell me of the king your brother 's plan , my lord , ’ she said softly . |
| 22 | ‘ I feel it , when you tell me of the apparently acceptable behaviour amongst your contemporaries . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ From what you tell me of the EC grants , he 's too damned honest , ’ Jessica laughed . |
| 24 | He tells me of the only time he has seen his mother drink ; her infant grandchild vomited on her coat , and she spouted a fine , volatile performance , screaming Christ Almighty the cross a woman has to bear , taking the Lord 's name in vain for the very first time . |
| 25 | Someone will probably tell me of the almost incredible persistence of the Karroo sandstones of southern and eastern Africa , or the Nubian sandstones across North Africa into the Middle East , or the Dakota Sandstone in the American West . |
| 26 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |
| 27 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 28 | I remember Chung telling me of the performance she had given with Tennstedt some years ago , a special experience for her , and this subsequent occasion resulted in a collaboration comparably searching and intense . |
| 29 | We sat after lunch on Monday in his room ; or rather he sat chubbily at his desk , living up to his nickname , spooning Hymettus honey out of a jar and telling me of the flesh and fleshpots he had bought himself in Athens ; and I lay on his bed , only half listening . |
| 30 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |