Example sentences of "tell john [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jonathan told John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , that after her arrival he had begun to suffer dizzy spells and developed an addiction for chocolate . |
| 2 | Dennis Clark yesterday told John Turner , 30 , that society would be outraged if he did not send him to prison . |
| 3 | Joyful reunion may make South African history : Albertina Sisulu and Nelson Mandela talked of old times and new strategy , she told John Carlin at her home in Soweto |
| 4 | While having his horse shod , Nisbet told John Morton that , with George Woodburn , he was on his way to assist the Covenanters , and persuaded the blacksmith to join them . |
| 5 | DAVID MELLOR has gone to the back benches nursing the belief that since he told John Major all about his expenses-paid holiday it made it okay and if life were fair none of us should have considered him out of order . |
| 6 | ‘ Whether the party chairman told John Major or not , I really do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Doctor Ian Craig the organiser of the human gene conference told John Walmsley what it hopes to achieve . |
| 8 | I also told John Chaplin that I would inform the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington ( the accident investigation authority in the USA ) of the situation so that there would be no question of action being delayed because of poor communications between the UK and the USA . |
| 9 | However , instruction was not entirely one way as Peter Collinson told John Bartram of an instance where Miller had advised a correspondent in Naples on apricot culture . |
| 10 | As Ken told John Lahr , author of the official Orton biography Prick Up Your Ears ( Lahr also edited the Orton diaries ) : ‘ He ( Orton ) had this capacity to have a sexual adventure and tell you the conversation that went on as well . |
| 11 | ‘ He understood the agony of the Crucifixion , ’ Ken told John Lahr . |
| 12 | Once , Ken told John Lahr , he was in the depths of despair . |
| 13 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 14 | Collinson had told John Bartram to consult this work in the library before sending him a personal copy in 1737 and two years later wrote to the American collector : |
| 15 | ‘ We Queens must stick together , ’ Minton had once told John Norris Wood who had expressed surprise at Minton 's devotion to the Queen Mother . |
| 16 | Farr , who invariably sails in the 17th man jump-seat position , has told John Clinton , the New Zealand sail designer , to re-assess the yacht 's sail inventory . |
| 17 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 18 | World champion passenger Simon Birchall and arch-rival Gavin Simmons tell JOHN McKENZIE you do n't have to be mad to be a GP sidecar co-pilot . |
| 19 | John Shaw , the elected prisoners ' chairman of D-wing tells John Earle , a life sentence inmate , what to expect . |
| 20 | . They can tell John Major . |
| 21 | I keep telling John MacEwen that he 's built half his practice on Phoenix Park ! ’ |
| 22 | Ken was to tell John Lahr about his discussions with Marty Feldman on the subject . |