Example sentences of "[conj] tell [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er there was a whole range of things like , Put in the hand and and erm they thought you were n't eating plenty or told to and supper . |
| 2 | Some described a future Anne unmarried and unhappy , for instance , or told of her helping and subsequently marrying the second-ranked , male student . |
| 3 | The sound of deep singing died away , and as Doyle paced restlessly up and down in front of the Cathedral , he heard that noisy shuffling and murmur of conversation that told of the imminent debouchment of several hundred men and women of precise military bearing . |
| 4 | Cowley allowed that slight grimace of disgust to touch his face that told of his total contempt for this particular villain . |
| 5 | Letter that told of troubled times |
| 6 | It was , eventually , their forward power that told on the Old Boys , with New Zealander No 8 Dale MacIntosh conspicuous in a constructive back row . |
| 7 | The needles splinter the wind into dirges and laments that tell of the long and tragic history of the trees . |
| 8 | That tell of the heart that is broken , |
| 9 | I could enjoy being ‘ half in love with easeful death ’ , or telling myself , ‘ I have not loved the world nor the world me ’ , or agreeing that , ‘ our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought ’ . |
| 10 | What is it that links the baseball players , boxers and other athletes , drawn with hyper-realist attention to detail , that people the canvases of Jessica Gandolf ; a combination of sexual imagery and social tension that characterises the work of John Carey ; strident colours and hand-written captions that tell of love and men in the paintings of Irène Hardwicke ; the domestic interiors and nature studies for which Katherine Spitzhoff uses egg-based tempera to give a high-gloss finish ; the pictures of John Spinks , a professor of linguistics , that incorporate printed paper , old book bindings and letters from his father ? |
| 11 | They may look to parts of the tradition which are less inimical to them , for example stories that tell of the lives of women . |
| 12 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 13 | Singer Nick Jarvis , resplendent in what looks like a blonde Beatle wig , wrenches tunes from his Rickenbacker that tell of an adolescence spent listening to The Beatles and The Byrds . |
| 14 | He shows marked fondness for first-grade readers that tell about occurrences in the lives of children . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's really a fairy story that tells of the love between a young prince named Albion , and Kenna , the lovely daughter of Oberon , king of the fairies . |
| 16 | PC John Timms , the local constable , was contacted and told to be on the look-out . |
| 17 | He revealed details of the royal couple 's unhappy marriage and told of Diana 's bulimia . |
| 18 | The story was obliquely based on the death of Philip 's father and told of miners digging their way to their trapped workmates . |
| 19 | Written in verse , the play was set in the Middle Ages and told of a soldier back from seven years in the wars who wanted to die and a beautiful witch who wanted to live . |
| 20 | Mr Carberry said he would be shown the accommodation for nine above the centre and told of the residential project in Darlington town centre , which provides accommodation for three people . |
| 21 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 22 | I am invited into the house , the kitchen , and told to ‘ Vait ! ’ |
| 23 | No there are Ways and Means and whether by way or by mean those persons will be traced and told to case and desist . |
| 24 | Those very rare instances where ‘ little crime ’ develops into ‘ real ’ police work are recounted by policemen often and told with pleasure and delight . |
| 25 | The decision was taken earlier in the year and the employees were identified and told about the decision before the year end . |
| 26 | I only caught a bit of it but he said that he turned up for training and was surprised to be called in and told about the deal . |
| 27 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 28 | These stories of the discoveries made by the Portuguese explorers and told in lyric form were published in 1572 . |
| 29 | I was endlessly patronized on my ‘ amazingly good English ’ at dinner parties and told in buses and in the streets to ‘ go back where you came from , chink ’ . |
| 30 | But sleep came unawares , for he was woken by Luib in the dark and told by the peppery old Myrcan that it was his watch , and that Corrary was on after him . |