Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] tell [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 2 | Her father had told her in no uncertain terms that she 'd lost her mind . |
| 3 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 4 | Forty days of rain , as God had told him in advance . |
| 5 | But Mrs Thatcher has told him in the Commons the Government 's not to blame : |
| 6 | If the Government keeps telling us in every statement they make that we 're an integral part of the . |
| 7 | ‘ You got ta understand about America ’ , an old black man had told him in Washington DC , ‘ it 's a fucking capitalist nightmare . ’ |
| 8 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 9 | Daryl remembered something your mother had told her in a letter a week or two before , she said that she 'd met Sally Hopes mother and had liked her and she said to that she 'd seen Mrs Hopes baby . |