Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings .
2 I have n't been back since I told them about me and Polly .
3 When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important .
4 She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief .
5 In order that the CAA and AAIB can decide on appropriate action , they need to know whether anyone else has had a similar failure or found signs of overheating on one of these units and not told them about it .
6 I phoned up the bobbies , told them about it , and the bobbies the is n't a lot much they could do .
7 Someone told them about us and we were sent a tea-chest full of filthy dirty , celluloid toys .
8 In the evening he invited several friends to supper , and told them about his mother 's departure .
9 ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all .
10 The workmen turned away after parents told them of their fears for the safety of local children .
11 And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs .
12 We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem , but we did not declare an emergency .
13 Throughout the meal he told them of his success at bartering with the guards , or stealing from the farmers when they were sent to work on farms .
14 With the cheese Wycliffe told them of his interview with Swayne , and of Sara 's revised version of her doings the previous evening .
15 She watched their reactions as she told them of his suggestion , and saw from Joanna 's face that she was very disturbed .
16 They laughed like a couple of schoolgirls , hands fluttering to their mouths like butterflies when I told them of my encounter with the priest .
17 I told them of my plans — a little hesitantly , I admit , as they are practising Christians and I was n't sure how they would take to the idea of a DIY funeral .
18 Several students told me of their plans to go abroad to live because the party would never release its tight grip over people 's lives .
19 Over coffee and a home-baked cake they told me of their plans to marry her off .
20 Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember .
21 It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her .
22 She told me of her children , of how life had changed in Oman once the old Sultan had gone and the new Sultan began to rule , of the Sultan 's mother who was ‘ covered in gold from her neck to her waist ’ and who lived in a palace in the city of Salalah .
23 A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash .
24 An eyewitness told me of her surprise , when emerging from the Peace Hotel ( Heping Fandian ) on the Bund , at being confronted by a ‘ mass of bodies , wave upon wave of students , marching down Nanjing Road in unison and chanting slogans .
25 Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit .
26 ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin .
27 Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road .
28 Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything .
29 It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards .
30 ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you .
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