Example sentences of "to tell [pron] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to persuade them , Richard Baxter felt he had to tell them of his concerns about the army and the reasons why he felt he must go . |
| 2 | Another time he painted a scene of the angel appearing to the shepherds to tell them of the Nativity . |
| 3 | It is much better only to tell them of the happier events in your life : the progress the children are making and the amusing things they say , descriptions of family outings and news of old friends and neighbours . |
| 4 | All I can do is to tell them of the number and variety involved , and point them to some background reading . |
| 5 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 6 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 7 | For example , a magical liquid which needs a component of ethereality might allow the links to be separated , but the adventurers will have to find an Alchemist or Scholar to tell them of this , and then they must find the ingredients for the magical liquid . |
| 8 | I must ask you not to tell them of our condition , however . |
| 9 | Within 24 hours , NIH security police were given the list of names and told to call each person to tell them of the theft . |
| 10 | While he talked with Atkins , writes Walker , ‘ Norma and Dulcie were symbolically , sitting at the stern , neither of the men thinking to tell them of the course they were plotting . ’ |
| 11 | Next morning Mr Jarvis rang to tell them of the pleasure he and his daughter with her little friend had had when releasing the squirrel . |
| 12 | He has , the paper says , phoned the IRA to tell them of his return to Ulster , to which the reply was : ‘ Expect to hear from us tomorrow . ’ |
| 13 | However , the two sisters telephoned Airdrie police station after friends in the Monklands area contacted them to tell them of the latest developments in the case . |
| 14 | Jamila had phoned me the day after Helen and I fucked in Anerley Park to tell me of her decision . |
| 15 | And so , before Reldresal came to tell me of my punishment , I went to the north of Lilliput , where our ships lay . |
| 16 | The College wrote to tell me of the embarrassing reply of my referee , and my supervisor got on to Bondi and refreshed his memory . |
| 17 | ‘ And when , exactly , were you going to tell me of their existence ? |
| 18 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 19 | After reading of Helen Wright 's good fortune in September Amicus Ivan McNeill wrote to tell me of his luck in winning a three day family trip to Euro Disney in a free draw organised at his local Esso petrol station in Ballymena , County Antrim . |
| 20 | But he had to tell someone of the joy dying inside him . |
| 21 | To tell which of these was the case required measuring the neutron energies precisely enough to get a sense of their distribution . |
| 22 | But it 's not always easy to tell which of the parties is ahead . |
| 23 | I have to interrupt here to tell you of Rodney 's tail . |
| 24 | I 'm not really used to being so personal or so open about things in public but want to tell you of my great sadness in life . |
| 25 | There is no space to tell you of the depth of fellowship I am experiencing , of the great joy I have in teaching such folk , of all I am learning from these believers who have suffered so much , of the hardening opposition by the Orthodox Church , of the great work being done by the Baptists among Bulgarian orphans and of the plans for an orphanage , school and seminary . |
| 26 | In so doing , he has enabled me to tell you of the matter — in the fervent hope that you will discover a means of informing the queen my mother of our case . ’ |
| 27 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 28 | Before I answer your questions this time , I would like to tell you of a couple of points that have arisen recently about machine maintenance . |
| 29 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 30 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |