Example sentences of "[pron] tell [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 2 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 3 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
| 4 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 5 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 6 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 7 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 8 | I told him in great detail . |
| 9 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 10 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 11 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 12 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 13 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 14 | Now then , that new vending machine I told you about last time . |
| 15 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 16 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 17 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 18 | And if I tell anyone about this man , he 'll die . ’ |
| 19 | Did I tell you about that song that I heard just once . |
| 20 | Did I tell you about that bloke the other week who got , the one who just cocky with me ? |
| 21 | But some people are appallingly mean did I tell you about that Ned being done out of six hundred pounds by an indian doctor and a her husband ? |
| 22 | Erm did I tell you about that Lucy and Ricky ? |
| 23 | Now he remembered someone telling him about this place . |
| 24 | Readers will remember my telling them of British Coal 's current advertising campaign aimed at convincing the power generators to place any future contracts with it . |
| 25 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 26 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You told him about last night ? ’ |
| 28 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 29 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 30 | You told me about that disaster . |