Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [noun] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very outset of his charge to the jury , the trial judge told them that the questions for them were : ‘ Firstly , have the Crown proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the first accused assaulted and murdered the deceased … ? ’ |
| 2 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 3 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 4 | " I 'm required by the reporting rules to tell him . |
| 5 | A glance at her watch as she turned to the car park told her she was not doing too badly after all . |
| 6 | based — so the programme note told us — |
| 7 | The shooting schedule tells me they are night shooting at Tempelhof . |
| 8 | Once you have requested the package be prepared for approval , wait for the mail message telling you that it is ready . |
| 9 | Once you have received the mail message to tell you that it has ‘ Scanned OKay ’ , you can re-use Option 1.3.2 to enter the configuration file module . |
| 10 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 11 | One last point : the Highway Code tells you to check your car before you drive to make sure that your lights are working , tyres inflated , petrol tank full , and so on . |
| 12 | After he stabbed the girl Cook told her he was sorry and ran out of the shop . |
| 13 | When it was time for ‘ lights out ’ , she and Jake left the room together , and out in the corridor Jake told her , ‘ Mrs Aitken usually serves supper about eight , so if you want to freshen up you have a bit of time . |
| 14 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 15 | I recall a commitment not so long ago to reduce the number or prisoners , yet the Home Secretary told us that there was an unexpected increase of 3,000 in the prison population . |
| 16 | As late as yesterday the Home Office told them no decision 's been made on its future . |
| 17 | But the Home Office told us it was concerned about attacks on prison officers and it will be reviewing staffing levels . |
| 18 | I sat there a long time , bored , with a cold bottom , and I was about to open the pub door to tell him I was going home when I saw the organ grinder trundling his barrel-organ down the street . |
| 19 | The geezer at the recruiting office told me to fuck off . |
| 20 | The recruiting sergeant told them all to disembark , stretch their legs and grab another cup of char , and added that if they were lucky they might even get something to eat . |
| 21 | The faience robes tell us that something similar happened in the Knossos Labyrinth too . |
| 22 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 23 | The schoolmaster skipper told us they had in fact come from France and had experienced bad weather during the night crossing . |
| 24 | ‘ One must be ever on guard against rumour — as the lady Alianor tells me ! ’ |
| 25 | But , as the conference slogan told us again and again , ‘ Meet the Challenge : Make the Change . ’ |
| 26 | It was only when they found the man who had taken the car back that the shop manager told him . |
| 27 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 28 | They almost never do … is this the moment George to tell you something of uttermost Top Secrecy ? ’ |
| 29 | The head was away and that was dreadful because he was one of the few people that knew what was going on because the community adviser told him that home/school links was an area that we should think about ; that is the school . |
| 30 | ‘ The trouble with Joe , ’ one of his more affluent colleagues in the pop business told me , ‘ is that he suffers from the fatal curse of taste . ’ |