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Example sentences of "[verb] to tell [pron] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ David said to me : ‘ Come over here , Luke wants to tell you a secret . ’
2	Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth .
3	‘ I forget to tell you the other night .
4	If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence .
5	I want to tell him the story of my life .
6	I want I want to tell you a secret
7	‘ I want to tell you the truth .
8	One other letter , while we 're mentioning receipts of things , the report does say that er Environmental Services Committee will be considering this and I have er yesterday received a letter from and I just want to tell you the outcome of that before the actual vote occurs , if there is one .
9	I do n't know to tell you the truth
10	I do not need to tell you the potential problems and chaos that the delay is causing to the reorganisation of the leagues next season .
11	‘ I hope I do n't need to tell you the level of shock that the last few days have brought to this entire country . ’
12	George did , and yearned to tell him the Army had thought of it , that Maxim had mentioned how they worked under codenames , then wondered if the Army should tell Moscow that , too- and realised that he was after a list , as well .
13	I wanted to give her time to think over what harm it would do to tell me the truth .
14	I well remember the long watches of the night when I and my baby struggled to overcome a physical incapability on my part , and I can not begin to tell you the relief on both sides when I strode out of the house , bought the largest tin of baby food I could find , and gave her the first square meal she had had since birth .
15	We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not .
16	You 've got to tell them the truth ! ’
17	‘ Jacqui , you 've got to tell me the truth .
18	I 've just got to tell her a secret .
19	Someone 's got to tell her the boy 's not been at school , is n't at home , ’ Gabriel said , as if that was what it was all about .
20	He sat back down next to her , but he still did n't look at her , and she had a sinking feeling that he really was going to tell her the truth about Nicole , but it would not be to her liking .
21	‘ This is one of my favourite shows , so if you 're going to tell me a bunch of big lies about what happened to your legs , well , I 'll just go back to watching my show . ’
22	And although his father said : ‘ lt was thet boy o' mine ! ’ , the bent drill-furrow was always a source of leg-pulling between the two friendly rivals : ‘ You 're not a ‘ going to tell me a tale like thet , Walter Cater .
23	Some of you from that part of the world will know that it 's a wonderful little shop , in fact it 's a gold mine and Jacqui 's going to tell me a little bit about her recipe for running that shop .
24	She said : ‘ Stop thinking like that , I 'm not going to tell you every thing that happens , because it would n't be right for you to know .
25	‘ Daddy 's going to tell you a bedtime story . ’
26	I 'm going to tell you a story .
27	You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’
28	‘ I 'm going to tell you a story . ’
29	So I took his arm and made him sit down again , and I said , I 'm going to tell you a fairy story .
30	Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’