Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to tell them that the only way we can meet our targets is an absolute freeze . |
| 2 | I had a sudden pang of conscience that I really ought to tell them that the funny-looking herb on the left of their kitchen garden was not really an obscure form of ivy and on no account must they attempt to smoke its leaves . |
| 3 | Late one afternoon Rioja had rushed in to tell them that the whole camp was being evacuated across the border and they must flee before the men who were coming to shoot them reached the hut . |
| 4 | Instead he went on to tell them that the shortest time they kept pupils was for two years but that usually they tried to move people back into mainstream at the time for transfer to middle/upper school . |
| 5 | The Americans that I have spoken to tell me that the average amount of fluid they use in a case is 24 to 32 oz . |
| 6 | He telephoned me one evening to tell me that the Labour Party had decided to use an extract from it in their manifesto . |
| 7 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 8 | And always in its straight bole I have a stop watch to tell me whether the slowest clouds are sliding and at what a pace a storm is travelling . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite a difficult trading position caused by a considerable drop in customer numbers , I am pleased to be able to tell you that the strenuous efforts of the management team , staff members of the associated Preservation Society have brought success in reducing costs to a level less than the revenue that we have earned , ’ he said . |
| 10 | We want to tell you that the 1963 hit is Britain 's top-seller of all time and reached world sales of more than 13 million . |
| 11 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 12 | I 've tried to tell him that the last thing Project Eden needs is an Administrator who 's crazy as a dakkabug , but will he listen to me ? ’ |
| 13 | Everyone began to tell her that the shortest day had been passed and Fred sat down beside Anne . |
| 14 | Wages , meanwhile , were held down — or , at best , rose only very slowly ; and it does n't need a Mr. Micawber to tell us that the net result for thousands of families was a fluctuation in living standards bordering all too often on total destitution . |
| 15 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |