Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] tell " in BNC.

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1 Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months .
2 excuse me I tell you what I like them , them
3 It would of , it would of got me I tell you .
4 He do n't miss nothing I tell you !
5 Nothing I told her .
6 So do n't tell them I told you , but the subject of spectator behaviour is under scrutiny at Augusta , of all places .
7 I told them I told that I was going home for good when the sister hurted herself .
8 Every one of them I told them all about peep hole
9 Well they I I tell you this they they we 'd worked for him for er good many years and there was no talk of any cuts in wages , we had this wages all through the through these years , and everybody was happy with it .
10 for me to have er I I tell you what I do get concerned about Lynda is somebody who ca n't spell their first name .
11 Well I I tell you how she she she picked it up .
12 but it 'll sound really awful if I I tell him now .
13 I I tell you one thing , once I go down I I 'm out .
14 But then again yo you 're you 're advised against going over the speed limit that most people do , I do I I tell yo like I said I 'm not a saint cos like a couple of times when I was first driving , especially in my fucking sprint cos it was a quick car I used to drive up people 's arses and wait until I could overtake them and if they did slow down that used to incense me and I 'd fucking , I 'd go right up there arse and then probably try and cut them up when I went , overtook them and I s fucking learnt , I got a I had a couple of close calls like , people are slamming brakes on and stuff
15 I I told you when it was yesterday but you did n't remember !
16 I I I I told you to .
17 and and when er erm come over here the last time er , I I told him a a that he say , Doctor , you see , told what he said , he is a clever old boy were n't he ?
18 I told hey , I I I told erm
19 I I told my mum and dad about that on Sunday , that she 's got a leg waxing machine .
20 After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I .
21 after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ?
22 And I said I you tell me if I 'm happy .
23 And I she told me that she can I come out and play Cherry and things like that , she 's so funny !
24 You always did n't I they tell you ?
25 Well I He told me he was n't allowed to go nights .
26 And another time ooh another time she went er somebody I tell you they always used to run for my mother when there was trouble and er a woman had hung herself just round the corner to where we lived .
27 One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude :
28 I prepared the orchestra very carefully , particularly for his jokes and set speeches , which I told them they must be amused by .
29 He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt .
30 which I told you
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