Example sentences of "[adv] tell [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 2 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |
| 3 | She drifted pleasantly away , finding herself at the theatre with Kate Maybury , but she had black hair and carried a colander , and in the colander lay a tiny baby , but Mrs Maybury would n't let her see it , just told her to watch the show . |
| 4 | ‘ Just tell them to open the doors and get out of the way . ’ |
| 5 | Guppy later told him to close the account because of worries about possible criminal action . |
| 6 | Goffman ( 1981 : 150 ) cites one type of example : if someone repeatedly tells us to shut the window , we can finally respond by repeating his words in a strident pitch , enacting a satirical version of his utterance ( " say-foring " ) . |
| 7 | And I did n't have any Treas keys so I could n't tell them to use the help service . |
| 8 | COUNCIL chiefs wrote to Andrew Jones to say they were sorry his father had died … then told him to quit the family home . |
| 9 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 10 | So why does Sinead say that the New Testament was forged , and then tell us to read the book of Revelations . |