Example sentences of "tell i the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
2 When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it .
3 While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’
4 A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public .
5 ‘ Someone told me the hedge is centuries old .
6 I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way .
7 Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done .
8 It told me the figures in east London .
9 ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile .
10 Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’
11 One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government .
12 Told me the kid 's name was Henry Stych .
13 When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted .
14 He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell .
15 Sharmi told me the story :
16 He told me the story about where he got it — it was real interesting , and a true story — not a made-up one .
17 He told me the story .
18 While I gratefully sipped my pint , they told me the story .
19 Between them , my new-found friends told me the story .
20 SHE TOLD me the story , but not before she had advised me that she was absolutely scandalized .
21 They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission .
22 One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline .
23 This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it .
24 He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom .
25 He told me the story of the house .
26 Back at home , back at school and everything now , I do n't know , she never ever told me the story , she used to talked to Steffy she used to shut me off , and I thought I 'd
27 The card told me the rest .
28 Told me the Emma Bates got a direct hit .
29 Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last .
30 He told me the daughter was a bad lot though .
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