Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 2 | I I think if you 've got a moderately or well differentiated tumour and i it 's solitary and it 's small and they 're clear at three months tell them to stop smoking by all means . |
| 3 | But you know how children accept almost anything that grownups tell them . |
| 4 | The dealer then approaches the arms manufacturers telling them that if they appoint him as their agent , he will get them a contract in return for a percentage of the value of the transaction , which could be as low as 3 per cent , or as high as 15 depending on how specialized is the equipment required . |
| 5 | She flew back to Lima and wrote to all her clients telling them not to expect any more craft goods : she was quitting and going to work in the jungle . |
| 6 | An enterprising firm of accountants , having taken expert legal advice , wrote around to B.C.C.I. depositors telling them of a scheme the accountants had prepared . |
| 7 | It is cramping for the author , but if you have contracted with your readers to tell them , through a story , what police work is really like then you must accept this limitation . |
| 8 | Only the rings on his fingers told them who he was . |
| 9 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 10 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |
| 11 | The workmen turned away after parents told them of their fears for the safety of local children . |
| 12 | It 's an encouraging if surprising fact that children and young people are much less likely to smoke when parents tell them that they do n't want them to . |
| 13 | Young children believe what their parents tell them , verbally or otherwise : there are no other sources of information . |
| 14 | This is not necessarily the best way of passing on the good news , but it does stir the passers-by to find not the paid priests but the cobbler , the miner , the man who sells meat fritters telling them about Jesus . |
| 15 | Tony rang Kate 's parents to tell them to come round ( they were going to look after 2½-year-old William ) and , by the time they arrived , Kate had just about finished her bath . |
| 16 | A doorman at a ‘ rave ’ at Sunderland Polytechnic last year rang Lee Turner 's parents to tell them he was dying , but he refused to call an ambulance because he knew drugs were involved . |
| 17 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 18 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 19 | Three times yesterday morning at 10am , 11am and noon a man contacted the Samaritans telling them where Gareth was . |
| 20 | Three times yesterday morning at 10am , 11am and noon , a man contacted the Samaritans telling them where Gareth was . |
| 21 | ‘ I have written to the chairmen of all the big banks to tell them that we will run a campaign to urge all students to boycott all banks which take part in the loans scheme . |
| 22 | DETECTIVES were trying to find out yesterday why scientists took 49 days to tell them a supposed murder victim was killed by drugs . |
| 23 | Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ? |
| 24 | Executives told them to " fuck off " and got on with dreaming how DPR might one day set up " Down Under " , where various bucket shops operated . |
| 25 | Far from helping the men help themselves to their rights , neither the Salvation Army nor the housing agencies told them they had any . |
| 26 | On other occasions when people feel tired , and again this applies particularly to night-workers , they know they should eat ( a rumbling stomach and hunger pangs tell them this ) and yet have no appetite . |
| 27 | ‘ The BBC received 30,000 postcards from happy holidaymakers telling them they had got it wrong . |
| 28 | He revealed his federation had sent an open letter to Russian skippers telling them : ‘ You are welcome in Scotland . ’ |
| 29 | All profess greenness nowadays , of course , but climate change has not yet become part of their instinctual combat kit with its codes telling them instantly what to do when action is joined over , for example , trade union legislation and welfare payments . |
| 30 | Soon afterwards we were moving to the town so we got in touch with Shamrock 's owners to tell them we could sell her along with all our horses . |