Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [conj] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anne and Heywood Hill , of the bookshop in Curzon Street , lived at number 10 Warwick Avenue and told them that the lease next door was for sale . |
| 2 | We 'd better go to Miss Miggs and tell her what happened . |
| 3 | Since I had collected a handsome pay-out from Ladbrokes a year earlier with money on Alesi I thought it only fair to 'phone Ken Tyrrell and tell him the odds . |
| 4 | Then she had gone to Mother Benedicta and told her of her sin . |
| 5 | The first thing was to go to Chancellor Kohl and tell him to co-operate . |
| 6 | Maybe she could phone Aunt Maureen and tell her what had been happening . |
| 7 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |
| 8 | The card was written by the Reverend Donald McQueen and told them that the Laird of Raasay had sent his own boat for them ; the reverend gentleman himself arrived shortly afterwards ; ‘ an elderly man , ’ says Boswell , ‘ with his own black hair , courteous and rather slow of speech , but candid , sensible and well-informed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I intend to contact Roy Symons and tell him . |
| 10 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 11 | Mr Brandreth met with Mr Hanley and told him in no uncertain terms that the people of Chester were far from happy with the decision to go to Glasgow . |
| 12 | Order Boz to go to Constable Aplin and tell him all he knows . |
| 13 | Go and telephone Sir Bryan and tell him that I 'll have his clubs back to him by midday . ’ |
| 14 | Accordingly , some of Panmure 's friends were reported to ‘ have been so free with Mr. Erskine as to tell him that if L[or]d Dunn should appear against ’ the Panmure interest , then Erskine would certainly lose his collectorship . |
| 15 | ‘ Why did n't you write to Sir Charles and tell him ? ’ |
| 16 | One , Sir Joseph Robinson , who had been convicted for fraudulent share-dealing in South Africa , was sufficiently so that the Chief Whip , F. E. Guest , was charged with calling on him in his suite at the Savoy Hotel and telling him that he had no alternative but to withdraw from the list even though his name had already been published . |
| 17 | ‘ My compliments to Sir John but tell him Master Daunbey would appreciate his presence here in the courtyard . ’ |
| 18 | I was impressed by Ali Wali and told him I hoped to get permission to return . |
| 19 | But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course . |
| 20 | He cornered the wife of the then head of BBC radio and told her : ‘ There was this man . |
| 21 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 22 | Berisha met with President George Bush and told him that Albania fully supported economic sanctions against Serbia , in spite of their high cost to Albania . |
| 23 | McDunn gets on the phone to somebody from Tayside police and tells them to contact the Goulds and stop the funeral . |
| 24 | But last night , Ferguson dismissed the claims as ‘ rubbish ’ and insisted : ‘ I phoned Barry Fry and told him there is nothing in it . ’ |
| 25 | One of the top ANC men came back from the Dar Es Salaam talks and told us , ‘ I am more than ever convinced that violence is not the way . |
| 26 | Write a letter to Doctor Jekyll and tell him that you think these ideas are dangerous and unscientific rubbish . |
| 27 | Aerial photographers scanning the country for just such signs had recorded the Hatherley evidence and told him it was virtually certain to be a Roman villa , but that archaeologists would give precedence to the more important sites . |
| 28 | Hugo first telephoned the de Chavigny offices and told them to contact Edouard immediately ; then , for the first time in many years , he prayed . |
| 29 | And do you want me to ring the Oban hotel and tell them what 's happened and change the booking ? |
| 30 | If you can see a result If I talk to John Smith and tell him that I know he keeps riding on the pavement at you know , with no lights , it sounds minor , but the old age pensioner who keeps nearly getting missed , it 's very you know upsetting . |