Example sentences of "and [noun] tell her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The respect that was growing so unstoppably in her heart and mind told her he not only meant what he said but had proven beyond doubt that he was capable of it . |
| 2 | The last thing she remembered was the sun perched on the shed window ledge like a big golden ball , and Edward telling her it was bedtime . |
| 3 | She had hoped that Rosie Lane at least , who was usually willing to try anything once , would have accepted the challenge , but she demurred , pleading a headache , and Janice told her , in mysterious tones , as though provided with obscene , private information , that she would be mad to go to such a place , that it was rough there , and wicked beyond all Clara 's pitiful conceptions of wickedness , and that if she went there anything might happen to her . |
| 4 | They rushed out into Regent 's Park — out of earshot — and Simon told her , yes of course he was forcing her hand , it was blackmail : he did love her so , she was the right one for him and he 'd take her tomorrow on five hundred pounds , if someone would lend them to him , and he did rather fancy himself as a married man at twenty-one . |
| 5 | ‘ Any adventures or encounters ? ’ asked Susan languidly , and Breeze told her all about Mrs Dare , and Ebenezer Arkwright , and the Blessington-Dalrymples . |
| 6 | Mrs Redmond called to see Julia one afternoon as she sometimes did now and Julia told her of the conversation about mourning . |
| 7 | Out through the archway at the end of the mews , a couple of turns , and Josie told her that they were on Harley Street . |
| 8 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 9 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 10 | And Naomi tells her what to do and the procedure to follow . |
| 11 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 12 | And Noreen told her , catching her breath between sobs . |
| 13 | And intuition told her that with Nathan it would be very different from the painful , greedy , and self-absorbed fumbling Giles had inflicted on her before she had succeeded in fighting him off . |
| 14 | But she knew that Platt Hall had the finest collection of nineteenth-century dresses outside the Victoria and Albert Museum , and reason told her that undertaking such an unusual project would provide a unique opportunity to learn about historical fabrics and keep her company in the forefront of its competition . |
| 15 | How could she feel her whole body yearning for him , when logic and reason told her that it should n't be ? |
| 16 | For a long time his death was concealed from her ; her mother and others told her had gone to Europe to be cured . |
| 17 | It had taken pain and misery to tell her what she had not learned from happiness — that she was in love with Tom Russell . |