Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] tell " in BNC.
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1 | And they go on holiday and they 're not supposed to , you know , they neither of them of told their boyfriend they go in this club and one of them , the married one , starts dancing with this man and like he , he thinks cos she 's dancing with him she likes him but she 's just having fun . |
2 | She did n't want him to stop kissing her , but curiosity made her murmur , ‘ Did you honestly believe that I would n't be angry with you for telling me so abruptly that you were Miguelito ? ’ |
3 | Although the monk does not tell the wife where the hundred francs have come from , and creates potential trouble for her by telling the husband that he has paid her this sum , the wife in the Shipman 's Tale is quite the opposite of the foolish , deceived creature that Margery is in Dame Sirith . |
4 | I 'm not going to bring the whole world down on us by telling my mother and father that I feel like a big spancelled goat going to college and having to come back here every night as if I were some kind of simpleton . |
5 | His theory is that the two men were either freelance or else they decided to try and kill the President by themselves without telling the others . ’ |