Example sentences of "[prep] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | After telling me her story with all those rumblings of resentment and flashes of only half-buried hatred , Nancy 's blue eyes suddenly lit up , her pinched face broke into a smile , she sat up and cried , ‘ It 's me sister ! ’ |
| 2 | Anyway tapped on window for told me to come in and says will you tell your mate to move his car . |
| 3 | You could of told me Tracey 's on . |
| 4 | I said well she could n't of told me any more could she ? |
| 5 | I says , well you could of told me he were in . |
| 6 | Well you should of told me ! |
| 7 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
| 8 | Should of told me , and I could of kept more . |
| 9 | By the time Don Black , lyricist of Tell Me On A Sunday and Aspects of Love , and one of the funniest men in the Western Bloc , came in to the studio to be interviewed I was a frothing heap . |
| 10 | Only two of these , /f/ in somefing [ P17 ] and the glottalling of /t/ in alright and what [ P19 ] , are shown in the transcription , but there are several others : the vowel of come , one , up and run [ P3 ] ; and the vocalisation of /l/ in the second two cases of tell me [ P16 ] , which contrast with a clear /l/ in the other instances of tell . |
| 11 | That would sort of tell me that that was the hypotenuse and that was the adjacent . |
| 12 | They would never have dreamed of telling me to take a certain attitude towards white people . |
| 13 | I 'd only met her once , so perhaps it was her way of telling me or him or someone else that she was ‘ in the know ’ . |
| 14 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 15 | I thought this might be his way of telling me . ’ |
| 16 | " He could have given me a ticking off , considering that he 'd gone to the trouble of telling me that you were coming . |
| 17 | What 's the point of telling me what I should have done ? |
| 18 | It 's her way of telling me , and saying ‘ What are you going to do about it ? ’ |
| 19 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 20 | If it is a cocaine run to the toilet , and I 'll bet it is , then he would n't dream of telling me about it . |
| 21 | ‘ I think my subconscious found a way of telling me a bit of what happened , Dr Vaughan . ’ |
| 22 | I mean is this your is this your polite way of telling me that I need a bath . |
| 23 | What 's wrong with telling me ? |
| 24 | You wo n't frighten me with telling me |
| 25 | A bus driver I spoke to in told me that the tinkers stayed down from . |
| 26 | The last example ( fig 5 ) is similar to the start of the second chorus of the solo from Tell Me . |
| 27 | A niece of mine living in tells me that it 's picking up slightly , the property market . |
| 28 | It is dangerous ( and forbidden to employees ) , but is you observe common-sense , stand firmly and hold the wood in same way each time , with all soft pink bits well away from the blade , you will not end up like the man in the story that the same Health and Safety Officer delighted in telling me . |
| 29 | He was more interested in telling me about the tactics of the attorney general . |
| 30 | There is no use in telling me I shall soon be running up mountains . |