Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | He told them without elaboration the content of his conversation with Jahsaxa Penumbra . |
| 3 | ‘ We told them to be careful and do their rounds accompanied by an adult , ’ said Mr Ord . |
| 4 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They managed to see Maeda who dropped hints and told them to be circumspect . |
| 7 | Feelings did n't stop because you told them to ; you could n't just turn them off . |
| 8 | Conservatives were delighted by the appointment as his successor of Count Viktor Panin , a reactionary whose lack of enthusiasm for discussion was reflected in the fact that he kept parrots because they said what he told them to . |
| 9 | Yes I told them to , yes that one 's going , that one 's going , no more to come after this . |
| 10 | Last night I told them over there to screw it up to two million dollars or I 'm out . |
| 11 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 12 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 13 | She told them about the visit of Father Devlin and Malachi Drennan ; of how Malachi had asked for Una 's hand in marriage ; of how he had offered to sell seventy acres of his best land to their father if the marriage took place . |
| 14 | Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys . |
| 15 | She told them about ‘ Factota Limited ’ , and asked their advice — and no two people could have been kinder . |
| 16 | He told them about the oranges and bananas that grow in Aula and the quantities of milk and curd , and then about the monkeys that hop around and eat the crops . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |
| 18 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 19 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 20 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |
| 21 | In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it . |
| 22 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 23 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 24 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 25 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 26 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 27 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 28 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 29 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 30 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |