Example sentences of "[adv] tell people " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't feel awkward with friends , because I only tell people who I think will understand . |
| 2 | It actually says that it , to only tell people if they ask what your doing . |
| 3 | ‘ Sam only tells people what suits him , Gran . ’ |
| 4 | You actually have to kinda tell people |
| 5 | Basically , it is not enough to tell people what good eating entails , and just hope that they will get on with it . |
| 6 | So I do n't even know names of roads , just tell people where I 'm going . |
| 7 | How do you all like , if you tell people , you know , without causing offence , do you normally tell people after you 've done it ? |
| 8 | How can we get the message across that counsellors do not make judgements , do not tell people what to do , do not try to force clients to sustain marriages which are no longer sustainable ? |
| 9 | Law can not tell people how to behave in their own homes ; they will not obey ; such rules are unenforceable because the necessary information is unobtainable , unless you put ‘ a spy under the bed ’ . |
| 10 | Mark does not tell people he went to public school . |
| 11 | And more than that I 'm afraid I can not tell people . |
| 12 | ‘ What do I know that I 'm not telling people ? ’ |
| 13 | No but I mean er it 's , n not telling people I think pe I , you know , I think that 's the worst thing to do . |
| 14 | He does n't think it 's any use just telling people things . |
| 15 | I even tape it when I 'm just telling people what I 'm doing . |
| 16 | He 's obliged to do it because it is a departure a very significant departure from his own development plan the plan that he piloted through to tell people exactly what the policies of North Yorkshire County Council were to be . |
| 17 | I tend not to tell people a song is n't about them because it disappoints them . |
| 18 | But if somebody , and they say to you , try , try not to tell people in advance because it inhibits them , I , I 'm not at all certain about that , but still , erm |
| 19 | That 's why it 's best not to tell people that you 're doing it you see because then they they 're careful what they say . |
| 20 | We always tell people we have selected . |
| 21 | I 've been to the open-air theatre on the island every year since it opened , and I always tell people that you 've never really seen Shakespeare until you 've seen it on Brownsea . |
| 22 | ‘ I would always tell people not to be too sensitive to the special offer mortgage rate but to look at the long-term history of how the lender treats borrowers and at all the extra fees attached , ’ says Ms Blackman . |
| 23 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 24 | Will the Minister still tell people in Calderdale that no one who can not afford to pay the poll tax will go to prison for that inability ? |
| 25 | I do n't usually tell people that , although I expect you know already . |
| 26 | ‘ And are n't I the one forever telling people to find out the facts first ? |
| 27 | He held me fondly , but it was a characteristic gesture , just as he was always telling people he loved them , using the same tone of voice with each of them . |
| 28 | Like like telling people I take after somebody important . |
| 29 | It 's also telling people it was expecting to have an installed Windows 3.1 base of more than 8m systems at the end of ‘ 92 . |
| 30 | So please take on board that it is not good enough to answer that a notice was put up to tell people that they could claim , when many people are blind or disabled or do not have the wherewithal to understand . |