Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [pers pn] how [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 2 | ‘ Did I tell you how people die in this valley ? ’ he asked . |
| 3 | and I said can you tell me how dad 's |
| 4 | Could you tell me how people outside Kuwait from that country are contributing to the war effort . |
| 5 | IN yesterday 's Daily Mirror we told you how Princess Diana had paid a visit to the Chiswick Family Rescue and published this picture of the Princess surrounded by mums . |
| 6 | Let me tell you how Gustave would humiliate me . |
| 7 | She flopped back , exaggerating her disappointment , then let him tell her how Marshall had discovered identical knives on sale in Leather Lane . |
| 8 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 9 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 10 | He told us how Christ had intervened in his life at his first visit to Caux . |
| 11 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 12 | I surmise that you want me to tell you how Gustave was as a lover . |