Example sentences of "tell [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst and Sir John Forster told conflicting stories in the subsequent enquiry . |
| 2 | Then he told Kāli to go and graze the cows , and Bi ā to tend the sheep . |
| 3 | ‘ Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred , ’ he told joyous crowds in Wenceslas Square , Prague . |
| 4 | IRA , mourners told LOYALIST murder gangs are simply doing the work of and for republican terrorists , a bishop told mourners today . |
| 5 | But the lawyer said that earlier one of them told ten-year-old Christopher : ‘ It looks like we 'll not be seeing our children at Christmas but you 're going to have your daddy after all . ’ |
| 6 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 7 | This brought their relationship to a climax and Minton , in front of Henrietta , told Norman to choose between them . |
| 8 | The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance — it was now up to him to take it . |
| 9 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
| 10 | He told Labour MP Dennis Canavan that the assault cases were settled on the civil burden of proof , which had been ‘ assessed on the balance of probabilities rather than the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt . ’ |
| 11 | TWO Manchester men told Spanish judges they had nothing to do with the death of an English holidaymaker . |
| 12 | At a meeting at the White House in November 1943 , he told Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle , Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius , and others that no single airline should dominate American airline services , and favoured a sectoral distribution of routes , of which Pan American would have some of the best . |
| 13 | He told ugly old women they would meet handsome young men soon , he told handsome young men they would meet large sums of money soon , he told dimwitted mothers that their sons would n't be coming home in nice wooden boxes from theatres of war with a 99 per cent casualty rate , he told collectors where they could locate that elusive antique backscratcher needed to complete a set . |
| 14 | Li Peng told Anan that the progress in China 's relations with Vietnam would not affect relations with Thailand or other South-East Asian nations . |
| 15 | Mr Hurd told European foreign ministers meeting in Hertfordshire that the refugee issue was ‘ possibly the most serious problem ’ facing the EC . |
| 16 | Abdel Shafi told Israeli army radio on Oct. 21 that all delegates would be representatives of the PLO " in the sense that all Palestinians have allegiance to the PLO " . |
| 17 | David Burns , who heads a service in Chicago that matches athletes and advertisers , told Associated Press he had not had a single inquiry about Yamaguchi since her Olympic win , watched by one of the biggest television audiences for the Winter Games . |
| 18 | The British have to end their predetermined belief that the suspects are guilty , ’ he told Associated Press . |
| 19 | Millionaire Michael Heseltine told British bosses yesterday : ‘ You are paying your workers too much . ’ |
| 20 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
| 21 | And he told top scorer Don Goodman : ‘ Get us more goals ! ’ |
| 22 | Vauxhall 's Director at Ellesmere Port , Nick Reilly , told assembled workers , journalists and worldwide representatives of parent company , General Motors : ‘ This engine plant at Ellesmere Port is right at the front of worldwide competition and with the team we have here it will stay there . ’ |
| 23 | Vauxhall 's director at Ellesmere Port , Nick Reilly , told assembled workers , journalists and worldwide representatives of parent company General Motors : ‘ This engine plant at Ellesmere Port is right at the front of worldwide competition , and with the team we have here it will stay there . ’ |
| 24 | NeXT told Electronic News that Canon was still interested in the design centre as part of a larger package involving licensing , marketing and distribution rights to the NeXTstep environment . |
| 25 | Hewlett told Electronic News that it had n't seen any fall-off of interest in the HP9000 Series 1200 machines it buys OEM from Sequoia , but if it did , it could ‘ take over what it needed , whether that 's technology rights or manufacturing rights or whatever . ’ |
| 26 | First Sir Richard Doll , Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Oxford University , told Daily Mail ] readers how science can save the world , and he criticised the attitude of the anti lobby . |
| 27 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 28 | When Josip Broz Tito , the communist leader of modern Yugoslavia , died in 1980 , plenty of Yugoslavs told foreign friends that their country would come bloodily apart . |
| 29 | Palace sources told foreign journalists that Hassan had invited the Shah as a gesture of friendship " . |
| 30 | However , giving as a reason a greater degree of compatibility with the LDP 's conservative line on defence and foreign policy a Komeito spokesperson , Akira Kuroyanagi , told foreign journalists in late November 1989 that it would " make sense " for his party to start supporting the LDP on a " case by case " basis . |