Example sentences of "[verb] to tell the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry lives to tell the story . |
| 2 | Maybe it 's just that those who do n't look do n't survive to tell the tale . |
| 3 | The Festival of Britain , 1951 , was designed to tell the world that we were back in business , full of vim and zip , bursting with new ideas , new teeth in the new bulldog , through another war with honour and into the second half of the twentieth century with eagerness and confidence . |
| 4 | Dawn , 26 , said : ‘ I ca n't wait to tell the baby all about it when he grows up . ’ |
| 5 | Smokes a couple of joints , swallows a couple of tabs and ca n't wait to tell the world ‘ I was a drug addict ’ . |
| 6 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 7 | They had forgotten to tell the rest of my body about this and as a result I slumped out of Armstrong , hitting the road with my right shoulder , having just remembered in time not to break my fall with my hand . |
| 8 | The police has simply forgotten to tell the owner they had found it . |
| 9 | That 's why he wants to tell the police the whole story — everything that happened — then he 'll be able to clear his name and be a free man again . |
| 10 | It can only be proceeded with with the government 's consent , and before going into committee the appropriate Minister has to tell the House that the proposed spending has the government 's approval . |
| 11 | ‘ So many people agree with others for the sake of it but Eric ca n't do that and he has to tell the truth and say what he 's feeling even if that is ‘ no ’ and it upsets people . |
| 12 | No one has to tell the England manager he got it terribly wrong with his selection for the European championship matches in Sweden . |
| 13 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 14 | But it develops a conscience , and has to tell the Emperor the truth . |
| 15 | To retrieve data the controller has to tell the drive to move its heads , one track at a time , to the requisite track and where to start reading on that track . |
| 16 | If anyone has to tell the story of Ana de Santis I want it to be you . ’ |
| 17 | IF YOU want to tell the time , do n't buy a clock from Kovacs in Madison Avenue , New York . |
| 18 | If we want to tell the gospel story as drama , as opposed to elucidating the truths of revelation in dogmatic theological form , then we have to take the story as it comes , neat . |
| 19 | You want to tell the headmaster , Mrs B. That 's what you want to do . ’ |
| 20 | So either way , whether you want to tell the truth or to lie , you need to have beliefs about what your relevant beliefs are . |
| 21 | Imagine that you are Harkness and want to tell the story of the day your brother got the cane . |
| 22 | Before the hearing takes place , you have to decide how you want to tell the Committee about your reasons for appealing . |
| 23 | I want to tell the world tonight that they did not kill him in the name of Ireland . |
| 24 | They want to tell the Ambassador they are unhappy about the trial , the fact that the jury found there was no premeditation , and their fear that the court could have been influenced because their daughter was not of French nationality . |
| 25 | Their honeymoon had been ‘ fabulous ’ , said Diana , bubbling over with enthusiasm and dying to tell the world . |
| 26 | This was a new series of lessons , rather grandly called Biology , in which he wandered happily around various special fascinations of his own and tried to tell the children something about natural selection and the origin of species . |
| 27 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 28 | ‘ They tried to tell the Irish delegation that we did n't have the power to negotiate without Jim Molyneaux , but it did n't work . |
| 29 | Mr Kinnock even refuses to tell the voters whether he will abolish the system by which , he hopes , they will put him in power . |
| 30 | There were other similarities in character which could be applied then and later in that Dupea was to be portrayed , in many ways , as the bastard who walks out of his family and a pregnant girlfriend , refuses to tell the girl he lives with that he loves her or to play the role of a caring son . |