Example sentences of "tell [pron] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys . |
| 5 | She told them about ‘ Factota Limited ’ , and asked their advice — and no two people could have been kinder . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |
| 8 | Nathan told them about the can of beans , the shotgun hold-up , the brutal thrashing in the back yard . |
| 9 | He told them about the journey down , the woman in black , the taxi-driver . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 14 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As calmly as possible , Cowley told them about the accident on the outskirts of London . |
| 17 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 18 | He told them about the Thing , and space , and the Ship in the sky . |
| 19 | How often have you heard parents say , ‘ Nobody took us seriously when we told them about the problem ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 … . |
| 21 | And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman . |
| 22 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 23 | I have n't been back since I told them about me and Polly . |
| 24 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 25 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 26 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 27 | I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do . |
| 28 | Under interrogation he told them about the ball of wax and , when he finally shat it out , they cut it open and found a letter . |
| 29 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 30 | You told them about the tubes in my daughter 's bag … |