Example sentences of "[pers pn] would tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I were a man I 'd tell me to get lost — and fast ! |
| 2 | I can picture Marie — how she 'd tell me off if she could see me . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd tell me , ’ said Hatch carefully . |
| 4 | " Diamonds are a girl 's best friend , " she 'd tell me . |
| 5 | I though we 'd sit on her step , like we always did , and share out the Cadbury 's , and I 'd tell her about our school and she 'd tell me all about the nuns and everything , but when she opened the door she just stood there , all clean and different in her stiff long uniform still , and said , " I ca n't possibly play out tonight . |
| 6 | I used to tease her about being so house-proud and she 'd tell me how her Aunt Rosina brought her up to do everything just so . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But look here , ’ he went on , ‘ if there really was anything wrong , you 'd tell me , would n't you ? |
| 8 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 9 | Has it to do with what you said as you 'd tell me one day ? ’ |
| 10 | You 'd tell me I 'd go blind . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Now I 'm officially off the case , I wish you 'd tell me more about this mysterious Zbigniew Nowak . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Now if you 'd tell me what happened at the dinner . ’ |
| 13 | She waited a moment and , when Robyn did n't reply , added quietly , ‘ You 'd tell me if something was wrong , would n't you ? |
| 14 | I wish you 'd tell me it 's a joke , once and for all . |
| 15 | You said you 'd tell me . ’ |
| 16 | You said you 'd tell me . ’ |
| 17 | These are the ones I am particularly anxious about at the moment , erm , now I 've put down four different headings on this particular way that I think we could help , erm , and hopefully , if there 's two hundred perhaps you 'd tell me whether there 's two hundred thousand is aimed at perhaps some of it , in , in this direction or not , I do n't know ? |
| 18 | You 'd tell me I was too young to get engaged to anyone . |
| 19 | ‘ I wish you 'd tell me what you want , ’ said Mrs Wimbush sharply . |
| 20 | In the days to come she would tell me the story , she would teach me many things . |
| 21 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 22 | Sometimes Bessie would come up to me in my lonely bedroom , bringing a piece of cake , sometimes she would tell me a story , and sometimes she would kiss me good night . |
| 23 | Even worse , you would tell me about new poems you had started to write , and it was like a dagger in my heart when you described working on them without my help — though the real reason you had come back to see me was to labour over them with me , adding my suggestions and excisions in the margins in your minuscule script . |
| 24 | Perhaps you would tell me if your position is that of agnosticism or of atheism . |
| 25 | You would tell me , would n't you ? |
| 26 | Wife : Listen , I wish you would tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 27 | Why did they say you would tell me about Van Gogh ? " |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 29 | She tried to think how to phrase the question , then said hesitantly : ‘ You would tell me , would n't you , if there was something wrong ? ’ |
| 30 | There gon na be something that er , as you would tell me about . |