Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] how [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 4 | Heuston tells us how Lord Halsbury when he was a Parliamentary candidate was congratulated by Sir Edward Clarke on his election defeat by nine votes in 1874 . |
| 5 | Rosa Guy is also very descriptive and emotional in her writing , one of my favourite descriptions is on pages 53–54 which tells us how Mrs Aimsley has all her glasses set out on shelves and the higher the shelf , the more expensive the glass and of course not being used to drinking out of glasses , Imamu takes the most expensive type from which to drink milk and syrup and after washing and drying it , he put it back on the shelf , but as he takes his hand away , the glass tips over and falls , smashing on the sink . |
| 6 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 7 | I have been asked to tell you how Professor Cizek gets the results he does from his children . |