Example sentences of "to tell them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Unbearable Lightness of Being , the Czech exile Sabina disturbs her French friends by being unable to last out a parade held to protest against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 : ‘ She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism , Fascism , behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic , pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was n't going to tell them , Arthur . |
| 3 | You have to tell them , shyly naming the place |
| 4 | Little did they know this was the fellow for whom The Flippity Flop Young Man was written , and I was n't about to tell them . |
| 5 | Would n't today 's permanent secretaries rather resent one of their own returning to tell them how to overturn the habits of a lifetime ? |
| 6 | The West German Ambassador , Hermann Huber , who earlier in the day told the new arrivals the transfer of 4,000 to West Germany was a ‘ one-off action ’ , appeared again to tell them : ‘ For the time being we are letting you in . ’ |
| 7 | As the New Republic succinctly put it , ‘ Kids tempted by crack do n't need the New Republic to tell them the drug is n't invariably fatal . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to be a dictator over the whole thing , to tell them what to do . |
| 9 | I do , however , keep giving the actors directions which belong to a five-week rehearsal period and then have to tell them to forget what I 've just said . |
| 10 | We had to tell them because they might have wanted to go home . |
| 11 | After that she began to tell them a little about her life in Scotland , particularly her life with the Rosenblooms . |
| 12 | Moran came back from the post office to tell them that Annie and Lizzie had been singing their praises . |
| 13 | It was two days before medical staff found out what his distraught parents were trying to tell them — that he had swallowed the contents of a tin of paint . |
| 14 | If you travel to a tropical country , write to that country 's tourist office to tell them that you are concerned about the preservation of their forests . |
| 15 | ‘ I have written to the chairmen of all the big banks to tell them that we will run a campaign to urge all students to boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme . |
| 16 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 17 | Unit holders would have felt a sense of reassurance if the management and the trustees had written promptly to tell them that their units had been suspended . |
| 18 | If a union decided to repudiate a strike , it had to write to all its members taking part in the strike to tell them that the union would give no support , and that they risked dismissal without compensation if the strike continued . |
| 19 | The need to catch the attention of browsers and quickly to tell them that Parker pens are elegant , or that Toshiba personal computers are high-tech , has spawned most of these ‘ display ’ faces . |
| 20 | I had learnt , however , never to tell them much , to keep the best parts hidden , as indeed I often had to . |
| 21 | Forgot to tell them it had cancer ! |
| 22 | Suppose you are having a conference for your sales people to tell them about a new product . |
| 23 | Tremayne and Mackie went to meet the men in uniform , to tell them , I supposed , what to expect . |
| 24 | What right have men to tell them what to do ? ’ |
| 25 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 26 | DETECTIVES were trying to find out yesterday why scientists took 49 days to tell them a supposed murder victim was killed by drugs . |
| 27 | Patten/Lawley : You have about 30 seconds Mr Kinnock to tell them why you wo n't say where you stand on this as the other leaders do . |
| 28 | In order to persuade them , Richard Baxter felt he had to tell them of his concerns about the army and the reasons why he felt he must go . |
| 29 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 30 | Many creatures , too , use visible light to tell them what is happening in the world immediately around them . |