That was the way the machine had told him it might work.

"That machine can't tell what goes on in a man's mind!"

The machines probably wouldn't tell us anything if they left them here.

The machine had told them all it was going to.

And the machine told you that I was the man for it?

The machine shut down and told me to call customer service.

And yet only a physiological machine could have told the story with such total restraint.

The machine did not tell its story as the coherent narrative given above.

The machine was not telling her where the charges were coming from.

And now I know nothing at all about it except what the machine just told me.