When she heard the girl was missing, she told her mum: 'I know where she is.'
He told me he would look for another job.
The doctor told him to go away and eat as much hot curry as he could.
Even so, she could have asked. Mrs Madrigal would have told her.
All of the men have been told that dark blue suits and red ties look best on television.
They wasted 20 minutes walking in the wrong direction, a public inquiry in Cardiff was told.

С другой стороны, если после 'tell' следует предложное словосочетание или словосочетание с именем существительным, суммирующие содержание чужой речи, мы можем сами решать, следует ли нам упоминать того, кто выслушивает чужую речь, или этого делать не недо. То же самое имеет место в том случае, когда после 'tell' следует оборот, вводимый словом, начинающимся на 'wh'. При этом данный оборот суммирует содержание чужой речи.

In writing about her own garden, she tells about her successes and her failures.
I wrote to her and told her about the diet.
And what the movie does is it tells a lot of obvious jokes about Los Angeles.
Before his death, Black Elk told his story to the late John G. Neidhardt.
Ship's captain Kevin Murphy told now French trawlers risked disaster by sailing in the wrong shipping lanes.
Dr Storm told me how the trial was conducted.