Example sentences of "she tell [pers pn] how " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 2 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 3 | Mrs Webster had a Friend ( to whom she always gave a metaphorical capital letter in speech ) , and she told me how much her Friend liked reading . |
| 4 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 5 | And she told me how many shifts you work , the different groups in this home and what type of clients , how to treat them . ’ |
| 6 | She told me how sad it made her to go to races and see young people throwing their money away — had their parents never taught them to study form ? |
| 7 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 8 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 9 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 10 | Well , she told me how it come to be closed . |
| 11 | She told me how she thought the way to put Inside Out on the map was to do more hard , investigative stories . |
| 12 | As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan . |
| 13 | She told me how much more exciting Willesden was than rural Bedfordshire , despite the once a year trips to Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , she told me how you 'd been born early , weeks early , how you were very small , but not small enough for special care . |
| 15 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 16 | She told him how she used to dread her time . |
| 17 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 18 | She told him how she felt . |
| 19 | Never a woman to keep her thoughts to herself , she told him how comfortable she felt in his company . |
| 20 | When she did , she told him how much she loved him — how she 'd always loved him . |
| 21 | When they had eaten , sitting companionably at the kitchen table , she told him how impressed she was by his unsuspected talent . |
| 22 | under foul mob-caps , she told us how |
| 23 | So we was talking about things like that and so she she said like selling her car now she told us how much money she made on it . |
| 24 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 25 | When she tells him how popular the photos apparently were he says , ‘ My first quote is , ‘ The readership of For Women must all have cataracts or be retarded . ’ |
| 26 | She tells him how she discovered Keats and Mozart and Goethe and Monet , and began to hate the laburnum and the grass verges and the swinging chains in front of the rose-beds . |
| 27 | She tells us how foolhardy we both are and offers me information on something called a ‘ towback ’ which her superiors have told her about . |
| 28 | ‘ Did she tell you how your father sacrificed himself to save Frank ? ’ |
| 29 | But did she tell you how she 's gon na wear it ? |