Example sentences of "man tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am a Belgian , ’ the shabby middle-aged man told me . |
| 2 | ‘ English groups are coming here to make records — they say the Liffeyside rocks ! ’ the young man told me enthusiastically . |
| 3 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 4 | Another young man told me how a Lubavitch rabbi helped him when he got into trouble with the police . |
| 5 | What the students learned was ‘ dry as dust and stagnant as pond water ’ , one young man told me about his studies . |
| 6 | If I can get out , things are bound to better ’ , a young man told me . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it should have been left alone ’ , one young man told me . |
| 8 | " I was in bed and suddenly this water started , drip , drip , drip , on my face , " an elderly man told me . |
| 9 | " The Old Man told me . " |
| 10 | I 've always been doing what this man told me or that man told me ; now I 'm doing things for myself . |
| 11 | I 've always been doing what this man told me or that man told me ; now I 'm doing things for myself . |
| 12 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 13 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 14 | One Skye man told me how , sitting on his lawn one afternoon , he heard a sudden great beating of wings and like passing royalty an eagle swooped low across the trees . |
| 15 | He answered : ‘ The man told me that he was a detective , and that I should say nothing about him to anyone . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The man told me his name , ’ said the driver . |
| 17 | The old man told me to enter , and to sit down . |
| 18 | I jumped to the edge of the cage , the man told me ‘ do n't look down or you 'll spoil it for yourself ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The pathologist who did the autopsy on the body of the man told me something about the effects of nerve gases . |
| 20 | The feeling of helplessness must be so overpowering as young one , as one young man told me , we are the forgotten ones . |
| 21 | A senior Labour man told me that if the Tories win the General Election , Labour will go all out for PR , but if Labour win forget it . |
| 22 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 23 | The man told me to daughter so that they I was being kidnapped . |
| 24 | one man told me , he said |
| 25 | ‘ It 's the wind which is contrary , ’ the man told her . |
| 26 | ‘ Myself , absolutely none , ’ the man told her . |
| 27 | She would be lucky , the man told her , to see the South in spring . |
| 28 | The man told her in a broad Scots accent that he was Maurice Langton , the manager . |
| 29 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 30 | The man told her to stay where she was , saying : ‘ I 'll be back for you , ’ but she managed to flag down a passing motorist . |