Use "tell on" in a sentence

1. and in the chapel pew, I tell only

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2. His best endeavours to keep various little bits of information from the probing policemen had failed miserably, they seemed to know when he was covering something over and the sheer effort required to keep a guard on his words was beginning to tell on him

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3. guys to tell one of their girlfriends the story and pretty soon cell phones and pagers

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4. ” I heard Abner tell one of the men

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5. As Grindel backed out of the chamber, Skelda's features relaxed into something that might have been a smile; it was hard to tell on such a deformed countenance

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6. Attendants gathered around her, and you couldn’t tell on the film what was happening because so

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7. “Yeah, while we tell one another ghost stories

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8. The strain had begun to tell on him

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9. “Without… He was bloody going to tell on us! Who knows whom to! I was protecting us! You!”

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10. “You’re telling me you’re going to call my boss and tell on me if I don’t play ball with you?”

11. 5 And I said, Tell on, my Lord; Then said he to me,

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12. Soon the swollen population, the summer heat, and loss of the mills began to tell on the besieged

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13. “Yes, fine, make sure he’s had his tranquilizer though and tell one of the orderlies to keep a close eye on him

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14. He may tell on us too, who knows

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15. billions for the rich’ and ask the simple question of “who’s money is it in the first place?” The socialist’s idea that all earnings belong to the government and only the government can tell one how much he

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16. 5 And I said Tell on my Lord; Then said he to me Go your way weigh me the weight of the fire or measure me the blast of the wind or call me again the day that is past 6 Then answered I and said What man is able to do that that you should ask such things of me? 7 And he said to me If I should ask you how great dwellings are in the midst of the sea or how many springs are in the beginning of the deep or how many springs are above the firmament or which are the outgoings of paradise: 8 Peradventure you would say to me I never went down into the deep nor as yet into Hell neither did I ever climb up into Heaven

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17. "I won't tell on you," he said

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18. I told the sheriff’s wife that I had tried before to tell on Harriet, but I was always on the losing side

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19. severely handicapped, the strain was beginning to tell on Bridget

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20. All he needed was a few tots of spirits to loosen his tongue and tell one of his adventures, some pleasant, others tragic

21. to tell on which side he would fall, on a side with soft pillows or on a side with sharp rocks

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22. be able to tell and to continue to tell one another about their lives

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23. As the crowd drew closer I could tell one of them was Mau

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24. he could tell on me, but that he wasn’t going to because he was

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25. The variation in interest and operating income tell only a partial story

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26. she tell on him?

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27. authors here tell only half the story by overlooking the obvious fact that each member of this Terrible Troika was a classic sociopath,

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28. As best as he can tell only their two faces had been identified

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29. There were so many people moving on the dance floor you couldn’t tell one from the other

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30. Christians are a minority in Asia, and Francis observed that when they meet other Christians will often tell one another the date of their baptism and beam with pride

31. Being the first man in my life, Austin compliments all I have read in the books and the stories women tell one another of their ideal husbands

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32. The strain was starting to tell on Ekaterina now and she was shivering,

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33. Ellie guessed her age to be mid-fifties, but it was tough to tell on a woman time had treated kindly

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34. be able to accurately tell once they've paired off

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35. ‘This is what I call big,’ said Esther as if worried the desert would tell on her for talking

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36. Spending 200 million dollars to tell one stupid story where the ending is already known…? Who gets to decide which story should be told? Whose version is put on the screen? How many truths have been left out, or slanted, or twisted in that version? Who, or what controls those decisions? The desire to make a profit? Then you get every fool with a script trying to sell it: no matter how idiotic it may be

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37. uncommon for house slaves to spy and tell on the lower

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38. The last month was beginning to tell on him

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39. the last few days was beginning to tell on her

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40. Time would tell on that one

41. The trick is constantly to tell oneself that they ARE enjoying moderation and that they ARE training themselves truly to enjoy this new lifestyle

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42. Tell on, please," he said, taking his face out of the sofa cushion, red and shining with merriment

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43. Much elated with her success, Jo did `tell on', all about their plays and plans, their hopes and fears for Father, and the most interesting events of the little world in which the sisters lived

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44. March smiled, as if well pleased, and Jo clapped her hands, exclaiming, with a laugh, "You are almost equal to Caroline Percy, who was a pattern of prudence! Tell on, Meg

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45. He could not tell one day from another, one week from another, hardly one place from another

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46. Beginning to tell on him now: that

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47. "Yes, but cautiously, tell one thing at a time, and do not say I told you

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48. Bless you, child, I wouldn't tell on

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49. Most visitors had to go to the hospital and tell one of the servants that they wanted to speak to a monk; but Edmund was too important a personage, and too proud, to beg the favour of an audience in that way

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50. We crept into a ditch and I hadn't the heart to tell one of the others to keep awake

51. He’d realized all along, of course, in some little-visited backroom of his consciousness, that her identity would out, the way you can tell one of your teeth is rotten long before you give in and go to the dentist

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52. Your little fucking sister could tell on us at any moment, you think that’s OK? This is on you, Ben

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53. Stone-hard are the Dwarves in labour or journey, but this endless chase began to tell on him, as all hope failed

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54. If it were always possible to tell one from the other, we would always know whether to fade moves or to enter pullbacks for continuation, but, of course, it is not possible to make these distinctions every time

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55. But don’t tell on me

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56. When the worst came to the worst, she had an impulse to get up and tell on Alfred Temple, but she made an effort and forced herself to keep still—because, said she to herself, "he'll tell about me tearing the picture sure

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57. But I was reminded of how unofficial even official matters still were in Afghanistan: all Farid had to do was tell one of the whip-carrying Talibs that we had personal business to discuss with the man in white

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58. Besides, to tell everything as it really happened, it would have been necessary to make an effort of will to tell only what happened

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59. These late-night shootings are beginning to tell on me

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60. ' But they're careful not to tell one thing to people who go riding to its music

61. “No one knows the true depth of what we shared,” she would later tell one of her closest friends

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62. However, at the very beginning of this project, I sat down with my researchers and investigators and posed the very important question: What is there about Marilyn Monroe that has not been reported in about a hundred other books about her? It took us some time to answer that question, and we had a few false starts over the years—as my publisher well knows! However, it was the relationship between Marilyn and her mother, Gladys Baker, that began to most fascinate me as we continued our research, and I soon realized that it was one of the stories I most wanted to tell on these pages—because it had never before been told

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63. What you don't know you can't tell on, and that was that

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64. At the end of the last century, fleeing the scourge of yellow fever that devastated Panama during the construction of the railroad between the two oceans, he had arrived along with many others who stayed here until they died, living in Chinese, reproducing in Chinese, and looking so much alike that no one could tell one from the other

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65. The close bonnet and demure air you describe so well (and nothing was ever juster), tell one what is expected; but I got into a dreadful scrape last year from the want of them

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66. It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course, for he could not tell one language from another, so when he pointed to the word man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learned from D'Arnot that it was pronounced HOMME, and in the same way he was taught to pronounce ape, SINGE and tree, ARBRE

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67. I will, however, tell one recent anecdote about him (and there are many)

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68. "Sir, I can't tell one thing from another

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69. He thought: "If I protect him, why should I forgive him, since he has ruined me? Let him suffer for my torments! And if I tell on him, they will indeed whip him to death

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70. You pitied me, and did not tell on me

71. When they went out far into the sea, so that land was not to be seen, they could tell only by the stars and the sun where they had to sail

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72. Iván did not tell on Gavrílo, and nobody found out how the fire had been started

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73. The elder did not wish to tell on his people, but with Vasíli he had long been in a feud

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74. “Now to tell one’s fortune in the empty bathhouse is frightening!” said an old maid who lived with the Melyukóvs, during supper

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75. This, then, was what our rule of frankness had brought us to—the rule that we should “tell one another everything in our minds, and never discuss one another with a third person!” Many a time we had exaggerated frankness to the pitch of making mutual confession of the most shameless thoughts, and of shaming ourselves by voicing to one another proposals or schemes for attaining our desires; yet those confessions had not only failed to draw closer the tie which united us, but had dissipated sympathy and thrust us further apart, until now pride would not allow him to expose his feelings even in the smallest detail, and we employed in our quarrel the very weapons which we had formerly surrendered to one another—the weapons which could strike the shrewdest blows!

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76. But the sheets were all there,—you always number them so clearly, and 'handsome August,' the compositer, promised he wouldn't tell on me

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77. In reply it was said, that since the Secretary of the Treasury had made the estimate in question, other expenses had been incurred; that it was impossible to tell the precise amount which was wanted until Congress should adjourn, as it was impossible to tell on one day what appropriations they would make the next day; that, if not necessary, the authority to borrow would not be used; as in the case of the loan authorized at the last session of Congress, not a cent of which had been actually borrowed

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