Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Imagine , she 'd thanked him for telling her Rob was missing ! |
| 4 | ‘ Look what trouble you 've got yourself in telling those lies . ’ |
| 5 | His appearance was a stark reminder that although a fortnight ago he had distracted her from telling him about Thomas — or maybe she had chickened out ? — the revelation had to be faced . |
| 6 | My mother would never have left me without telling me when she would be back . |