Example sentences of "[conj] tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 2 | It consists mainly of a diagram of the shape , plus figures that tell you about the sizes , stitches and rows . |
| 3 | If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole . |
| 4 | I could n't hear the first words , then I heard : ‘ Bill phoned the depot and told me about the accident . ’ |
| 5 | She grimaced and told me about the school playground and how her clothes were wrong . |
| 6 | anyw anyway erm I was talking to her on the bus not too long ago and , I do n't know how it came up but she was talking about Egypt , and er she 'd been apparently oh some a year or two back cos she did a , an evening course on Egyptology and she went through that , but she was telling me about a friend or friends of hers who 'd been er and told me about the trip . |
| 7 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 8 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 9 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 10 | We discussed our plans for the living museum and theme park and told her about the oak tree . |
| 11 | Princess Marie Louise went to the Queen and told her about the scheme . |
| 12 | She phoned Kate and told her about the funeral and the goat clinic and Kate laughed and said , poor old thing . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're right , ’ her brother grinned , and told her about the gymnasium . |
| 14 | Then they talked about ‘ red-petticoat day ’ , and the children showed Mother their watches and told her about the people at the station . |
| 15 | ‘ He immediately rang his bosses and told them of the theft . |
| 16 | So I went on into the town , and told them at the castle , and the lord Beringar has set a guard on the place now until daylight . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So I rang up and told them in the office . |
| 19 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 20 | So I got up early and went to the judge 's house and told him about the monster . |
| 21 | She explained the need for absolute cleanliness , showed him where he could wash , and told him about the masks and gowns . |
| 22 | Sensing it , she changed the subject and told him about the Tissot exhibition . |
| 23 | Unable to hold his excitement , Clark telephoned Professor Frank Cox of King 's College London and told him of the results . |
| 24 | When Vivien appeared on the set badly made-up , with her wig perched ridiculously high on her head and refusing to alter a single thing , Asher reluctantly called Olivier and told him of the problems . |
| 25 | By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide . |
| 26 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 27 | ‘ The bit I liked best , ’ says Phil , ‘ was when you prodded the pig and told it about the unfairness of micro-organisms . |
| 28 | I thought he were gon na forget that , I thought I should of got up and told everybody at the front |
| 29 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 30 | And tell me about the lady who did abortions , erm , did you know very much about what sort of people they were ? |