Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told that woman that if she offered me |
| 2 | I told that lady . ’ |
| 3 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 4 | Yeah , cos I told that was one , I said that 's , that 's the one I , I over slowed on my test . |
| 5 | I told all my friends what I was doing and they were supportive , although one or two wondered why I could n't do it by myself . |
| 6 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 7 | ‘ I told this O'Hara fellow about her mother this morning . |
| 8 | this trouble once with a with a young child and er I told this this this person er granny figure if you like , do n't talk to those children I 've told them not to they went on and on and on . |
| 9 | ( I told this lad what I thought of what he said too ) . |
| 10 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 11 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
| 12 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 13 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 14 | I told most of the young women on the telephone that I 'd be wearing a battered black hat , so that they could find me easily . |
| 15 | ‘ When I first watched Michael Chang play tennis , ’ Jose recalls , ‘ I told several people that I believed Chang could do well at the French Open . |
| 16 | ‘ Time and again , they said things like : ‘ I ca n't tell my Mum because she would n't believe me ’ or ‘ I told another teacher but I just got told off for telling lies ’ . |
| 17 | I tell that to my players . |
| 18 | I tell all the owners who keep animals here to get them freeze-branded . |
| 19 | I have , all my life long , been lying till noon ; yet I tell all young men , and tell them with great sincerity , that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good . ’ |
| 20 | I tell this story for two reasons . |
| 21 | I tell this because the humility and openness to God of my friend has always been an example to me . |
| 22 | I c I , I tell this story cos I think it illustrates it very much , I expect most of you have er if you have n't been you 've heard of Dale in Derbyshire , and it 's this river with a , a lovely walk either side of the river , you walk along the side and then you come to the point where there 's a bend in the river and there 's these gorgeous great enormous stepping stones . |
| 23 | am I changed or not , if I tell this tale ? |
| 24 | So I tell this to that lady there . |
| 25 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 26 | Who did I tell that to ? |
| 27 | That 's the way I tell them , do I tell these , that joke I told you before ? |
| 28 | Did I tell this , |
| 29 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 30 | ‘ And you told all this to Mrs … the woman in London ? ’ |