Example sentences of "[pers pn] to tell the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , what am I to tell the people in London and partic in particular er when they say that the government and the county council is letting them down ? |
| 2 | But I 'm begging you to tell the panel how to do it please . |
| 3 | LIFESPAN Option 9.3.0 , Update Availability of Media , enables you to tell the system , for each 4-digit code , what media type it is ( as specified using Option 9.5.0 ) . |
| 4 | Perspiration poured from a hundred brows — though it was snowing steadily outside — as an official declared : ‘ We ask you to tell the world about Petr Uhl . |
| 5 | I want you to tell the world that the monster is a danger to everyone . |
| 6 | I 'll teach you to tell the truth . |
| 7 | At least be flattered that I chose you to tell the truth to . ’ |
| 8 | It does n't jus I 'd like to know , I 'd like you to tell the rate payers of Shropshire what you expect them to do . |
| 9 | At the sermon , Father McKenna introduced one of his altar boys , Colm by name , and got him to tell the story about how he and his altar boy teammates had recently beaten another altar boys ' team by eight goals to five . |
| 10 | The Queen gave Mr Major an urgent message on Tuesday night asking him to tell the nation . |
| 11 | And he had to admit that it was a clever plan to winkle Nader Nadirpur out of his hiding place and force him to tell the truth . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) I forced him to tell the truth . |
| 13 | Now it is important for me to tell the story correctly . |
| 14 | ‘ That is for me to tell the Lieutenant . ’ |
| 15 | Why , Eileen wondered , is it all right for her to say that about her husband 's mother , and wrong for me to tell the truth about Mrs Arbuthnot ? |
| 16 | By June we had made sufficient progress for me to tell the House of Commons that we intended to move against the ‘ frozen ’ pension . |
| 17 | And you want me to tell the warren that young — er — young — er — your brother here has got a hunch and we must all go trapesing across country to goodness knows where and risk the consequences , eh ? |
| 18 | For example , when Bernstein showed working-class children a sequence of pictures and asked them to tell the story contained there , they began so to speak from inside it : ‘ he kicks the ball through the window then the woman chases them ’ etc. ( 1971 ) . |
| 19 | Can you trust them to tell the truth about where they 're going ? |
| 20 | They instructed us to tell the promoter that they would give some money towards the gig 's adverts in the local papers . |