Example sentences of "[prep] tell [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So resist the temptation of telling everyone . |
| 2 | All his friends know that it was Howard who did the Matterhorn , in spite of his modesty , because Prue Chase makes a point of telling everyone . |
| 3 | As Bertaux-Wiame ( 1979 , p. 29 ) notes , the act of telling one 's life story is an encounter with reality . |
| 4 | Nicholson made the mistake of telling someone , ‘ My phone number 's in the book . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the relief of telling someone . |
| 6 | I 've discovered over the years that if my hair is all right , then generally speaking , so am I. I also notice as the years lurch by , and I would n't dream of telling anyone but you , that my mother was right . |
| 7 | Atkins and his colleague had savagely threatened him against telling anyone , but he was influenced more by reluctance to distress the rest of his family as he assumed that they would be as helpless as himself . |
| 8 | It was like telling someone they had just lost at Russian roulette . |
| 9 | ‘ They 'll know because I shall take great pleasure in telling everyone the truth ! ’ |
| 10 | What is wrong in telling someone how to make the best of themselves ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I took extra care about everything and , after the last time , we decided to wait until three months before telling everyone . ’ |
| 12 | Both resolve to wait until the GP has performed the pregnancy test before telling anyone , even though the GP 's pregnancy test uses much the same sort of chemistry as the commercial one and is hardly more reliable or definitive . |
| 13 | Without telling anyone , I climbed to the top of the brick wall , looked over , it had about a nine foot drop on the other side and there in a Tate Sugar Box with a slatted front was a caged cockbird . |
| 14 | The next day he went to work , but found he could not concentrate and returned home without telling anyone . |
| 15 | One day he took the afternoon off without telling anyone . |
| 16 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 17 | She had left London without telling anyone , including her mother , that she was pregnant . |
| 18 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 19 | ‘ I am so sorry that I caused you such grief by acting as I did , by going off without telling anyone . |
| 20 | One Saturday morning , without telling anyone of my plan , I boarded a bus and headed off out of the Lesotho capital of Maseru and towards Roma where I knew a witchdoctor lived . |
| 21 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 22 | Does he not know that people will actually die , old folk who will turn down the heat without telling anyone ? |
| 23 | Here again , builders sometimes have a way of varying the internal party walls without telling anybody , sometimes plaintively observing ( as the troubles that ensue from this fall about their lawyer 's ears ) , " But the contract said the plan was only for identification , " and see head 6 above as to plans . |
| 24 | It was arranged yesterday and we have n't got round to telling everybody yet . |
| 25 | Now I tell them why if you 're gon na tell somebody why why your opinion is something the word because is bound to come into the sentence soon . |
| 26 | Mind you , I was n't gon na tell anybody she was writing to me anyway ! |
| 27 | Did n't wan na tell anybody about it cos he knew they , they they could say well ca n't you organize things better than that ? |
| 28 | ‘ At the moment the team is coached by Andrew Soper from the computer department , although he wo n't thank me for telling everyone , ’ said Suzanne Isaacs of the Personnel Department at Broadgate . |
| 29 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 30 | The Gnomes sat at the far table , eating and drinking happily , whiling away an amiable half hour by telling anyone who would listen the entire history of the Crown Jewels and the history of the Gallan forges . |