Example sentences of "[pers pn] told of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters from one of them told of Mohnyin , another BCMS centre , where the nurses from the Mandalay Children 's Hospital had settled . |
| 2 | WHAT a moving tale of true grit you told of Coronation Street 's Lynne Perrie . |
| 3 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 4 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 5 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 6 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 7 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 8 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 9 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 10 | Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip . |
| 11 | But away from the lenses they told of torture , rape and mass-executions . |
| 12 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 13 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 14 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 15 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 16 | He told of botanising in Sheppey and , excitedly , of a chance to visit the West Indies as physician to the Duke of Albemarle , recently appointed Governor of Jamaica . |
| 17 | He told of two or three being raised at Thorndon and two more at Chelsea , where one flowered although no seeds were produced . |
| 18 | He told of how Richard Carew and a band of twenty armed men had ridden into Irish territory , searching for the murderers . |
| 19 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 20 | He told of theological colleges where men were at risk of sexual advances , and expressed his scepticism about ‘ so-called ’ faithful and committed relationships between homosexuals . |
| 21 | He told of his sorrow at having to quit a job he passionately enjoyed . |
| 22 | He told of the Black Sea fishing collective where the catch was counted not in kilos of fish flesh but in the grams of the salted roe of the sturgeon . |
| 23 | He told of the saints who established Christianity , and who were really responsible for stability and civilisation in northern Britain . |
| 24 | In 1814 he told of the arrival at the Swan Inn of a Mr. and Mrs. Nanny who had travelled 245 miles from Wales to London to get advice from Mr. Astley Cooper and other eminent surgeons there . |
| 25 | He told of Tim 's ‘ captivating smile , flashing teeth and twinkling eyes ’ . |
| 26 | He told of the death of his father last Christmas , killed by a white man driving recklessly — and the Coroner 's verdict of ‘ death by natural causes , ’ so no compensation was given to the family . |
| 27 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 28 | He told of the advancements made against the backcloth of the Single Market , highlighting how all major EC turkey-producing countries had increased output during the past five years . |
| 29 | And he told of his pledge to fight the growing crime rate in Darlington by calling for stiffer sentences and more responsibility placed upon parents for offenders under 17. — Labour candidate Alan Milburn , speaking at his adoption meeting , said the Conservatives had failed Darlington . |
| 30 | George was a quick thinker so always did the introducing and all of the talking , but George did not talk about himself — he told of how Lennie was as strong as a bull and how he could buck barley all day . |