Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To tell them about a misunderstanding ? ’ |
| 2 | One day Mr Bumble came to tell them about a woman who had died in an extremely poor part of the town , and Sowerberry and Oliver went to collect the body . |
| 3 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 4 | We 'll probably take this on paper , so the reason it 's on the agenda is to tell you as a department that we 've had this sent to us , erm we 've got a meeting later this week to actually sit down and analyse it and to put something on paper to send up to command . |
| 5 | Before I answer your questions this time , I would like to tell you of a couple of points that have arisen recently about machine maintenance . |
| 6 | At the end of April 1973 I went to see the King of Morocco to tell him about a plot to kill him . |
| 7 | The point that I want to reiterate here , before extending this concept of structure theoretically , is that in the drama process the surface meaning of the event , the meaning which in fact would play a large part if we were to tell it as a story — ‘ And the townsfolk listened to the Government representative and they had to come to a decision ’ — may not provide the required game structure . |
| 8 | Waiting to tell us about a victory for Bicester over Milton in the Hellenic League premier cup ; Bicester two , they 're going so well at the moment , Milton nil ; Charlie Rawling . |
| 9 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |