Example sentences of "[verb] to tell she [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to tell her that , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He did n't need to tell her that . |
| 4 | If war broke out he 'd have to join his father 's regiment , but he was n't going to tell her that . |
| 5 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 6 | I 'm going to tell her this minute what I 've decided . |
| 7 | She certainly did n't want to cut short this visit to the pet shop , where Mr Miller had promised to tell her more about his stock of animals . |
| 8 | When a woman looks in the mirror , she sees the totality of her being : because of the social brainwashing to which she has been subjected , the mirror seems to tell her more than it can tell a man . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've tried to tell her that . |
| 10 | Dorothea had once tried to tell her this , but Alida Thorne had flushed with anger . |
| 11 | Wainfleet refused to tell her any more as he wanted to pump her about Hunter-Blair . |
| 12 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |