Example sentences of "told [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 2 | A folk tale told of a Tahitian chief , Moikeha , who sailed to Hawaii and , largely thanks to his prowess on a surfboard , married two princesses and became king of the island of Kauai . |
| 3 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 4 | At a party at the Hyde Park Hotel to celebrate his forthcoming 86th birthday on Christmas Day , Lord Grade told of a tricky moment during the filming of his film Jesus of Nazareth . |
| 5 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 6 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |
| 7 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 8 | In my talk , I described how my hosts had set the scene , but only The New York Post told of the counterfeit press release . |
| 9 | Mr Carberry said he would be shown the accommodation for nine above the centre and told of the residential project in Darlington town centre , which provides accommodation for three people . |
| 10 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 11 | The disbelief in the England camp was summed up by Tottenham Hotspur 's Alan Mullery who , told of the false accusation of theft , remarked : ‘ Are you kidding ? |
| 12 | Peter Hunter , secretary of the NALGO Pro-Life Group , at a recent meeting of NALGO supporters told of the disgraceful waste of union resources which are used to prop up the national Abortion Campaign , to which NALGO is affiliated . |
| 13 | He could also be excellent company , with a fund of stories that he told with an exquisite sense of timing , though such good moments were rare for he preferred to brood savagely over life 's injustices ; the chief of which was the inexplicable existence of Roman Catholics . |
| 14 | But this was dear old Mr Rabinowitz himself , spruced up , a new suit , who told in a quavering voice how this perfect stranger had come to his aid after the Blackshirts had smashed open his tailor 's shop . |
| 15 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |