Example sentences of "i tell [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 2 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 3 | I told her about the hops . |
| 4 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 5 | She asked me about Mr Forster on the cruise and I told her about the salt . |
| 6 | I told her about the date at the pictures with the two boys and about the disaster with the bleach . |
| 7 | I told her about the meeting . |
| 8 | ‘ I told her about the suffering of battered women and of the desperate need to make sure they have somewhere to run , ’ said Mrs Horley . |
| 9 | I told her about the ride home with Joey Bonanza . |
| 10 | As soon as I told her about the things that had happened , she knew . |
| 11 | And I told her about the timeslips , and how I had found myself back in her time . |
| 12 | at er , I , I do n't remember anything , anything at all , but she said , I told her about the baby , she did n't know about that |
| 13 | As I told her at the time there were several possibilities . ’ |
| 14 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 15 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 16 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 17 | Well do you know , out of all the girls who work New Year 's Eve right , I told them on the night , oh I said we 'll get about forty pound for tonight wo n't I , because it 's double time and I was the only one who complained about it when I had my pay . |
| 18 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 19 | Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal . |
| 20 | So I told them about the C in Mister C. I said ‘ It 's C as in E equals MC 2 . |
| 21 | So anyway , before I heard that I 'd got an appointment at the Clinic , I got caught for one burglary and so I told them about the rest , 'cos I wanted to get off it an ’ I knew that was the only way of getting off it and I thought , now I 've been caught , I might as well get meself stuck down for a bit , like , rather than get a big fine which I wouldn'a been able to handle at that time … . |
| 22 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm very shocked and disappointed for Ricky , ’ said Stewart when I told him of the retirement news . |
| 24 | I had an abortion , without telling anyone ; the father left me when I told him of the pregnancy . |
| 25 | I told him of the plight of all the refugees on the station , then he thought for a minute and said , ‘ Well , I 'm running a camp at the moment , and have over a thousand in it , but I 'm sure we can squash you all in somehow . ’ |
| 26 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 27 | I told him of the change in men like Alec Smith , Elliott Gabellah and Arthur Kanodereka . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 29 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 30 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |