Example sentences of "tell [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 2 | He told them how Howard 's words had shaken him , and said , ‘ There were things we did with the Security Forces in the forests of which I am not at all proud . |
| 3 | ‘ They told me little James 's coat was around his head , ’ Kevin claimed . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're talking to a bankrupt — almost ! ’ he told me yesterday lunchtime . |
| 5 | ‘ Cyril Ockleton told me how Morpurgo came to be disabled . ’ |
| 6 | Sheila Hancock was in that film too , as was Nanette Newman , both of whom told me how Ken would while away his time discussing the medical advances of which apparently the medical staff in the picture were not aware . |
| 7 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 8 | That night a civil engineer — charming , sensible , honest — told me how Rhodesia has boomed since declaring her independence . |
| 9 | Then there was the grim , rather more real world of Hardcore Punk , where Black Flag and The Minutemen ruled in tandem , told everyone how crap and bleak everything was and pumped ear-damaging noise pollution into the leaden skies . |
| 10 | And you can say well look I told you so dad . |
| 11 | I told you so Labour and the Lib Dems betrayed democracy , says Stephen Howe |
| 12 | IN yesterday 's Daily Mirror we told you how Princess Diana had paid a visit to the Chiswick Family Rescue and published this picture of the Princess surrounded by mums . |
| 13 | She told him where Dyson and Bob were , and he nodded and smiled again , as if he had known already . |
| 14 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 15 | Told him only Moira F. had seen it so far . |
| 16 | M. Grimaud told her how Nîmes had been settled by the veterans of Octavius 's victory over Antony and Cleopatra , whose names , Antonin , Numa , Flavien , Adrien , persisted , even today , as did the emblem of the defeat of the serpent of old Nile , the Nîmes chained crocodile . |
| 17 | I told her how Aisha kept a close watch on what I ate and drank and how I had to take care of the house and children to pay for my board and lodging . |
| 18 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 19 | He told us how Christ had intervened in his life at his first visit to Caux . |
| 20 | But I suppose I must have told them how things were between me and Richard because as I lay on my bed , in my old room , I heard Aunt Lilian telephoning . |
| 21 | But you still have n't told me why Catherine is n't with you ? ’ |
| 22 | You talk and when you 've told me where McCloy is and what he paid you , then you can go downstairs and hide your head . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I bet yer that Polly 's told 'er ter goo , ’ said another . |
| 24 | I said , I 've told you already son , I 've stopped smoking . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't suppose his crystal ball 's told him where Newley 's got to ? ’ |
| 27 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 28 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 29 | He hated the way she said to him , ‘ Tell me tomorrow darling , I must fly now , ’ and the way that when she 'd waved Bye-bye and got into the taxi , she immediately opened her bag and took out her mirror and comb , and did n't look at you again , even if the taxi did n't move for ages , because the man was changing the meter or talking into his radio . |
| 30 | ‘ Tell me why Melanie was there at your house ? ’ she pleaded . |