Example sentences of "tell of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 2 | Inspired by Dante 's Divine Comedy and the sad tale of his love fur Beatrice and by medieval ballads about a knight saving a damsel in distress , their works told of lovers in search of a beloved , a metaphor for the ‘ artist in search of his muse ’ . |
| 3 | Reports from the Commando units around the village told of determined German counter attacks during the night with many casualties . |
| 4 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 5 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 6 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 7 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 8 | Contacted by telephone early yesterday when fighting was still under way , a young American couple told of how they crouched on the floor of their appartment , armed with their own guns , terrified that reports of the Battalions roaming suburban areas would mean the thugs appearing at their door . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ’ At Shotesham there are delicate plaster ceilings and a frieze of wheat-ears and hops in the entrance hall , which told of Robert Fellowes ' surrounding acres . |
| 11 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 12 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 17 | In her memoirs , A Vulnerable Game ( 1989 ) — which contained no hands — Markus also told of her 13-year romance with Harold Lever ( now Lord Lever ) , a minister in the Wilson Government . |
| 18 | Set far in the future , it told of the fall of a mighty Galactic Empire , and of the efforts of Hari Seldon , a great social scientist , to build a new and better empire out of the ruins of the old . |
| 19 | Residents of the flats told of their shock when the bomb exploded . |
| 20 | He told of botanising in Sheppey and , excitedly , of a chance to visit the West Indies as physician to the Duke of Albemarle , recently appointed Governor of Jamaica . |
| 21 | He told of two or three being raised at Thorndon and two more at Chelsea , where one flowered although no seeds were produced . |
| 22 | For the next two letters told of an almost idyllic and peacetime existence . |
| 23 | Even more horrifying was a recent report aired on CBS which told of Panamanians searching for missing relatives and finding several mass graves containing at least 4,000 people . |
| 24 | A surgeon testifying before the ICI told of wearing ‘ armoured masks ’ after learning that some of the injured had been shot with bullets designed to re-explode . |
| 25 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 26 | One told of their kind offer to look after her garden while she was away and how she came back to find it stripped of all the ripe fruit and the choicest vegetables . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Against a thumping back-beat , it told of a love affair between ‘ Harry and Johnny 's wife ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 30 | High on the moorland wilds , ancient travellers told of meeting with a mysterious stranger who would offer them a golden goblet of wine . |