Example sentences of "[coord] told [pers pn] get " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 2 | She was quite calm and told me to get a watch and try and time how far apart the pains were . |
| 3 | ‘ He gave me a couple of pills the size of tennis balls and told me to get my head down . |
| 4 | Jesus took the little girl by the hand and told her to get up . |
| 5 | M ! father took the bag from her and told her to get back upstairs to my mother . |
| 6 | She said that she begged Mr Pollard not to drive , he pushed her and told her to get lost . |
| 7 | Once inside her room she 'd called reception and told them to get the police . |
| 8 | They called back Washbrook , now 41 , and told him to get up to Headingley with his bat and pads . |
| 9 | Guessing correctly that Bobby was hard up , Bacon gave him £5 and told him to get a meal at Wheeler 's . |
| 10 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 11 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |
| 12 | ‘ He lay there snoring so I thought he was messing about and told him to get up . |
| 13 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 14 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |
| 15 | Oh we were look through all the magazines and they got really stressed out and told us to get out . |
| 16 | She gave us an IOU for three million pounds and told us to get lost . |
| 17 | It is high time that the Minister went to see Anglo-United and told it to get its act together and stop polluting the environment . |