Example sentences of "tell [pron] of " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 2 | They laughed like a couple of schoolgirls , hands fluttering to their mouths like butterflies when I told them of my encounter with the priest . |
| 3 | She told them of the hardships suffered by our men . |
| 4 | We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem , but we did not declare an emergency . |
| 5 | Mr Crowden told them of the terms of the will and suggested that Violet 's legacy seemed a poor reward and that it might be improved . |
| 6 | Crossing into Dutch Timor next day , they moved over the dry coral rocks and through occasional dells of trees around clear springs before reaching a Roman Catholic mission church where the priests told them of Sparrow Force 's defeat . |
| 7 | I told them of my plans — a little hesitantly , I admit , as they are practising Christians and I was n't sure how they would take to the idea of a DIY funeral . |
| 8 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 9 | As they travelled west , along the same route that the young cadet had come , they met travellers who told them of the horrors of the revolution . |
| 10 | Samuel had already arrived and within a few minutes they were joined by Neville Chamberlain , MacDonald told them of the situation in the Cabinet , and of his advice to the King . |
| 11 | And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs . |
| 12 | Throughout the meal he told them of his success at bartering with the guards , or stealing from the farmers when they were sent to work on farms . |
| 13 | Mr Boyd told them that the name ‘ Buller ’ derived from the French bouloir , reduced by local folk to ‘ the Pot ’ , in which cauldron Dr Johnson now gambolled with a certain heartiness , speculating upon the depth of the caves , and their uses for smugglers and pirates , or shelters for boatmen : Mr Boyd also told them of people from Peterhead holding picnics in one of the caverns . |
| 14 | With the cheese Wycliffe told them of his interview with Swayne , and of Sara 's revised version of her doings the previous evening . |
| 15 | ‘ He immediately rang his bosses and told them of the theft . |
| 16 | Antony cleverly exploited this principle when he told them of Caesar 's will . |
| 17 | They were welcomed by Guinness Brewing Worldwide Managing Director , who is chairman of the Guinness Group 's Pension Trust , and who told them of the latest developments at their former workplace . |
| 18 | He told them of the product launches during the year , Cruzcampo 's success at the Expo event in Spain , and the development of the new staff restaurant to replace the old canteen . |
| 19 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 20 | She watched their reactions as she told them of his suggestion , and saw from Joanna 's face that she was very disturbed . |
| 21 | The workmen turned away after parents told them of their fears for the safety of local children . |
| 22 | Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give . |
| 23 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 24 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 25 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 26 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 27 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 28 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 29 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 30 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |