Example sentences of "tell some " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told some 600,000 people at a mass that he wanted to visit China , where millions of Catholics are believed to belong to an underground Church . |
| 2 | On the second day of the UN-enforced air boycott , Tripoli radio said envoys from France , Germany , Italy , Sweden , Belgium , Czechoslovakia and Japan were summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told some of their number would be expelled . |
| 3 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 4 | I had repeated a story told some weeks before by our minister at the chapel , and he was one of the party guests . |
| 5 | He told some gory stories of eagles carrying off dogs and lambs , of their being shot and maimed . |
| 6 | Someone told some cat burglar where to find that picture ! ’ |
| 7 | He told some quite funny stories . |
| 8 | They told some awful stories about going hungry , no privileges , putting the fire out at six o'clock at night . |
| 9 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 10 | Boz told some of the others that he knows who attacked Anna . ’ |
| 11 | Cossutta told some 1,500 delegates meeting in Rome that the Soviet Communist Party had fallen due to its own errors , not because of any flaws in the ideals of the 1917 October revolution . |
| 12 | Unfurling the national flag at a brief ceremony in the Lal Chowk area , the BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi told some 70 party colleagues , amidst tight security and a 24-hour state curfew , that the gesture symbolized a victory against the forces of " terrorism and secessionism " . |
| 13 | She told some of the other mothers he 'd died , but she was n't a good liar , and she gave them different reasons for his death . |
| 14 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 15 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 16 | Oh no , no , he told that one , he told some weird ones that go on and on and on and on and the end is |
| 17 | The trouble is that this can present psychological problems if , like me , you are not one of those people who has been riding since you first told some condescending aunt from your pushchair ‘ It 's not a horsy , it 's under 14.2hh ’ . |
| 18 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 19 | When are we going to be told some good news for a change ? ’ |
| 20 | But I 'm told some of those craft can make the Mars trip in forty days . ’ |
| 21 | Jean : She 's told some kids to go back to their own country . |
| 22 | While we were there we were told some ghost stories about the house and in one room there was a mummified cat to ward off evil spirits . |
| 23 | got it somewhere in this house but I 've told some chap , a bit of a Welsh there er I said , Now but it was Welsh there . . . |
| 24 | They can be told some of the pre-requisites , and have to work out the others out-of-role before starting — perhaps they are told who they are and what has happened , and they have to agree where and when the situation is taking place . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've lied to me ? ’ she enquired , not seeing how she could be offended when she , either outright or by implication , had told some whoppers . |
| 26 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 27 | Then in the next chapter , we tell some tales of the close kinship between man and beast , of contact between human minds and the minds of other living creatures . |
| 28 | ‘ I bet you tell some whoppers to all your lovers . |
| 29 | When national stations broadcast chiefly in the shortwaves the range of different newscasts available is immediately wider ; when people have every expectation that all broadcasts will tell some lies , they use different broadcasts as if they were radio beacons for navigators of truth : knowing the position of each , they can calculate the co-ordinates of reality with an acceptable degree of certainty . |
| 30 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |