Example sentences of "tell i how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both told me how they enjoyed the sport , in which they could compete on equal terms with the able-bodied . |
| 2 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |
| 3 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 4 | Someone told me how her director always says at the end of her outpourings , ‘ Let us keep silent and wait on the Holy Spirit ’ . |
| 5 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 6 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 7 | One young woman who talks lovingly about her tears , told me how her father used to say , ‘ It 's Fred inside you watering the iris in his window boxes ’ . |
| 8 | But your fresh deputy should be the one who 's giving you the feedback , I mean , all the time I was on provisions in my last department , and nobody ever told me how I was doing . |
| 9 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 10 | Well , she told me how it come to be closed . |
| 11 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 12 | Siah Armanjani once told me how he used to see the movies in his native Persia in the 1950s . |
| 13 | As time went on the comments became less encouraging and more accusing , so that at the age of forty-five , in my study , he told me how he felt a failure and as a Christian unable to understand God as a God of love . |
| 14 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 15 | He told me how he had had problems when young and had assumed that upon his marriage , he would break the habit . |
| 16 | Yngwie then told me how he created the orchestra on ‘ Fire And Ice ’ : ‘ We had two violins , a viola , a cello and a contrabass and we overdubbed that quartet four times , so on record it sounds like a chamber orchestra rather than just a quartet . |
| 17 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 18 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 19 | He told me how he worked his candy or piece of common-yard , dividing it into two by a path , and growing wheat on one side and vegetables on the other , changing over the crops each year . |
| 20 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 21 | He told me how you tried to rescue him . |
| 22 | ‘ You never told me how you managed to get the money out of him , ’ she gasped . |
| 23 | In an effort to bring herself down to earth again , she said pleasantly , ‘ You never told me how you got into Woodline Design . |
| 24 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , she told me how you 'd been born early , weeks early , how you were very small , but not small enough for special care . |
| 26 | ‘ I remember you once told me how you spent a lot of time on the Algarve when you were young , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but I had no idea which area you came to . ’ |
| 27 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 28 | Mrs Hillaby , the present clerk of the course , told me how she has seen horses collapse at the finish , and one had even laid down and died through being ridden too hard . |
| 29 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 30 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |