Example sentences of "to tell [pron] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 2 | However , the two sisters telephoned Airdrie police station after friends in the Monklands area contacted them to tell them of the latest developments in the case . |
| 3 | It is much better only to tell them of the happier events in your life : the progress the children are making and the amusing things they say , descriptions of family outings and news of old friends and neighbours . |
| 4 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 5 | She thought for a moment , then decided to tell him of the little house in Washington where she and Mama had lived before Mama married Papa — She wondered briefly what Dr Neil would have made of that story . |
| 6 | He felt a sudden desperate need to see Alice — to tell her of the momentous happenings of the day and ask her advice . |
| 7 | It was , as Steve Hammond said , all there , but there was nothing , she realised , in all those pages to tell her of the particular hell this couple must have been through . |
| 8 | When called upon to tell us of the exemplary conditions in his new factories at Bournville , Mr Cadbury — his looks belying his years and status — refused to blow his own trumpet and blushingly declined to speak . |
| 9 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |