Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The polytechnic handbook which I used was not much help and my tutor has told me to ask the librarian for help . |
| 2 | ( He gawped at me as if I 'd told him to swim the Atlantic . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I was going to tell you to change the locks . ’ |
| 4 | If they wanted the Shah to stay they would already have told him to order the Army to destroy the revolution , not just peck at it , Instead , president Carter has sent over a senior US general , Robert E. Huyserl , to keep the army quiet . |
| 5 | Prince Rainbow had the power of the sky and the power of the hills and Frith had told him to order the world as he thought best . |
| 6 | While she spoke , she remembered Maxie 's grumble from behind his newspaper , the last time he had been home , when she had told him to do the leaves . |