Example sentences of "tell [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 3 | ‘ It is obvious that responsibility for 100 years of decline of UK plc must be laid at the door of the Establishment which purported to guide the affairs of the nation , ’ Peter Morgan told them in a speech which commanded wide attention . |
| 4 | Mrs Lennox said Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin , Air Member for Personnel , told them in a letter last month that their application was ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ before they had even submitted estimates from insurance companies of what their children 's education was likely to cost . |
| 5 | So I rang up and told them in the office . |
| 6 | It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . |
| 7 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 8 | I told them in as few words as possible what Silver and the others had said , and they listened without speaking . |
| 9 | His father is an important visitor from the United States of America , " Tran Van Hieu told them in French . |
| 10 | I told them in school about you and they said I was ideally positioned . ’ |
| 11 | I will , I will mention , I did n't know they were sending out such a letter , otherwise I would have er , told them in advance . |
| 12 | The President told me in person last night . |
| 13 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 14 | Many women I spoke to hardly bothered with a Dupatta indoors while others told me in whispers that they wore it only because their mothers-in-law insisted . |
| 15 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 16 | ‘ Robert told me in quiet tones and averted eyes how he climbed the stairs behind the prostitute in this house where she conducted her trade . |
| 17 | ‘ That couple are not really married , ’ Peter M. told me in wondering tones . |
| 18 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 19 | As for an alleged German seaborne attempt on the old RAF radar research station at Bawdsey Manor , close to Shingle Street , Suffolk , Mr Laurence S. Harley , scientist and antiquarian , who died in 1983 , told me in 1969 : ‘ At the outbreak of war , I was a principal scientific officer concerned principally with research into radar … at Bawdsey … |
| 20 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 21 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 22 | ‘ It was very hard work in many ways ’ , he told me in February 1985 , ‘ and the fact that we 'd been thirteen years [ in Opposition ] meant that most of them , almost all of them , had no experience at all in government . |
| 23 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 24 | ‘ I was forgetting what you told me in my surgery . |
| 25 | Tony Zemaitis told me in ‘ 76 that it would be ten years before it sounded right . |
| 26 | Brian Thomas told me in the wake of the 12–9 French win in Cardiff : ‘ Too many walkers , not enough runners ’ . |
| 27 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 28 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 29 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |