Example sentences of "tell one " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told one foreign reporter that she knew of the rumours and laughed them off , saying , ‘ If my relationship with the General Staff makes me a secret agent , maybe I am ! ’ |
| 2 | In mid-May , she told one foreign reporter that bloody repression would be inevitable if the students did not withdraw . |
| 3 | As Kieslowski , who cut his molars on more than 30 documentaries in the Seventies , told one French critic : ‘ There 's no difference between the two except that television pays you less and you have to work faster . ’ |
| 4 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 5 | When he arrived in India in 1926 he told one of his private secretaries that his aim was to govern in such a way as ‘ to keep a contented India in the Commonwealth twenty-five years hence ’ . |
| 6 | Your money will be safe with us , ’ Chris Patten told one audience . |
| 7 | Company partner Frederick Strittmatter reportedly told one journalist : ‘ We will have no more to do with Mr Thatcher by the end of the year . ’ |
| 8 | But she told one VIP she was ‘ looking forward tremendously ’ to Saturday 's ceremony at Balmoral . |
| 9 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 10 | The opinion polls did n't matter , he told one rally after another . |
| 11 | The anguished princess , says Morton , told one friend : ‘ If this is the price of public life then it is a price I am no longer willing to pay . ’ |
| 12 | Brandon then told one of the other group : ‘ Order your food and leave if you do n't want trouble , or I 'll splatter your face across the road . ’ |
| 13 | He told one elderly woman who had not read the story : ‘ It may be worse than you think . ’ |
| 14 | David Scott , for example , told one of his Angus constituents in the last years of the eighteenth century , when refusing his request for patronage , that he was |
| 15 | At the close , over the coffee and brandies , he thanked us all for attending , told one short and amusing joke and wished us on our way . |
| 16 | All the recruits were dressed in blue tracksuits and the Corporal told one of them to show me a bed and explain what was going on . |
| 17 | " I 've known many a writing man , " she told one of his friends , " and he 's no writing man , Mr Eliot . |
| 18 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 19 | In fact Lewis took some pride in his severe , no-nonsense attitude towards Eliot — " He does n't come in here disguised like Westminster Abbey ! " he told one friend . |
| 20 | On The Waste Land specifically , he told one inquirer that the real meaning of the poem is that which it holds for whoever is reading it . |
| 21 | There was a risk that he might overstrain and enlarge his heart : he told one visitor that the sensation was like that of " harbouring some runaway machine " . |
| 22 | He told one interviewer that there was little , if any , worthwhile poetry being written in England ; of the poetry of " the Movement " , then a fashionable group , he said that it showed neither motion nor direction , and he was also scornful of the present generation of critics and reviewers . |
| 23 | Socialism begins at home , they told one another as they filled their glasses with Oake and Nephews ' Special Christmas Offer Beaujolais . |
| 24 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |
| 25 | Ironworkers told one of their officials that they would stop working if the woodworkers were continued in employment . |
| 26 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 27 | Simon Franks told one of the DCs that Nicola had mentioned some MP in the West Midlands . |
| 28 | The Shah told one of his ministers . |
| 29 | ‘ Our products can help give people a calmer , more well-ordered existence , ’ she told one American interviewer . |
| 30 | When collecting the weekly account he told one of the cement gang his share was 6/ for beer . |