Example sentences of "tell [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 2 | ‘ The Collector ’ is arranged in three parts , each told in the first person by Clegg , Miranda , then Clegg again . |
| 3 | Here we are told for the first time such details as that the Moreens are American , that they require a resident tutor for their sickly child , and that Pemberton is looking for the tutor 's job ; or rather , we are not told , but are led to infer these facts , for James avoids a direct statement of them . |
| 4 | It is the combination of being told for the first time that you have coronary disease with the need for an emergency procedure , for example , an angiogram . |
| 5 | The story of Dod , the Doric-speaking protagonist , and his encounters with Gaels and other inhabitants of the oil platform he works on , will be told for the first time on Saturday , 20 February , at Broadford . |
| 6 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 7 | Michael 's sister Susan Priestley , 39 , said last night : ‘ We were told after the last appeal that this one was n't likely to succeed but we live in hope . ’ |
| 8 | In the school , I was told in the First Aid that you could always tell a fractured femur ( which happened with elderly women as a rule ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ is also told in the first person , but not by either of the main characters . |
| 10 | for certain lessons , I just give you an example with literature it would work with erm science and er other things as well , you might be told in the next lesson we are going to discuss , for example the first act of a particular play , or we 're going to discuss which particular scientific experiment or the cause of whatever it is |
| 11 | So , a text containing a first person narrative by a narrator involved in the story claiming things about the world by indirect inferences would probably be found more to the left of the network than a text told in the third person by an omniscient narrator directly asserting claims about the world . |
| 12 | Then he took two detectives to the Queenshill Bridge over the river Severn , Shrewsbury Crown Court was told on the third day of the trial . |
| 13 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 14 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 15 | Er , Chairman erm , I do believe that this has always been an issue erm of vested interests and bureaucracy administration but all I want to say to members of the council today as a member of the youth and community advisory committee is that extremely serious er far reaching decisions are gon na have to be taken because we were told at the last meeting of that sub committee that just to stand still because of the changes in legislation regarding transfer of funds to the er F E funding council , we will lose a further two million pounds next year so even if we er do not have to find any cuts within our own budget that money is going out of this authority 's budget it may come back in in commissioning agreements but because of the different timescale that the funding council works on we probably wo n't know that when we come to set our budget and really the issue for the Labour group I think in particular as councillor has said , is the question of budgetary control . |
| 16 | As the apostle John was told by the third angel who described the pressure of crises on faith , during his vision recounted in the book of Revelation , ‘ This is where the fortitude of God 's people has its place — in keeping God 's commands and remaining loyal to Jesus . ’ |
| 17 | It tells of the last penguin to leave the North Pole , left behind because he is afraid of swimming . |
| 18 | With letter I enclose clippings from the Gwelo and Que Que newspapers , telling of the first actions of the Mobile Force . |
| 19 | Right here I just wanted to tell about the first time I ever saw him . |
| 20 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 21 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |