Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] tell [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd already told you all you needed to know ! ’ |
| 2 | I 'm honest , I 'd better tell you that . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you 'd better tell me all about it . |
| 4 | You 'd better tell me all about your dad , so I can keep my end up . ’ |
| 5 | No one had ever told her this before — not even Sam Baldwin , who wanted to marry her . |
| 6 | She smiled as her father began : he would have been happy being a teacher ; he had often told her that and at one stage — in the nature of parents ' bequeathing unfulfilled ambitions to their children — he had hoped that Mr Fenton might consider her as a pupil teacher ( just for the mornings , of course , he needed her the rest of the day ) . |
| 7 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |