Example sentences of "i tell [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 2 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 3 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 4 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 5 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 6 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 7 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 10 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 11 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 12 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
| 13 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 14 | Why was n't you in registration or did I tell you about the blooming black board ? |
| 15 | Let me tell him about the previous 12 months ' statistics which show a decrease in salmonella food poisoning and that the Food Safety Act 1990 is working . |
| 16 | Let let me tell you about the damned side effects of this drug , because people are entitled to know what they . |