Example sentences of "[pron] tell [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 2 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 3 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 4 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 5 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 7 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 8 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 9 | They wo n't wear it for one minute when I tell them the whole story . ’ |
| 10 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 11 | I tell you the same way , there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance . |
| 12 | ‘ What if I tell you the whole truth ? |
| 13 | What do I tell him the next time he asks |
| 14 | Shall I tell them the latest news ? |
| 15 | Someone tells me the other day that I , I 've you know y |
| 16 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 17 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 18 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 19 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 20 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 21 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 22 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 23 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 24 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 25 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 26 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 27 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 28 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 29 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 30 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |