Example sentences of "[vb mod] tell me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now you must tell me about your presents , ’ Faye decreed , turning to Belinda . |
| 2 | ‘ Why he should tell me from day one that you were his girlfriend . |
| 3 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 4 | Oh she 'll tell me about it . |
| 5 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 6 | I 've often asked , but nobody could tell me for certain . ’ |
| 7 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 8 | No expert could tell me of a product to cure the problem . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think you could tell me about him ? |
| 10 | Because nobody could tell me about sport , nobody could guide me , which is what I needed . |
| 11 | Who were the gaberlungi women who could tell me about a castle that it turns out you know all about ? |
| 12 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 13 | The compass could tell me in which direction I had to go — it could n't tell me what lay between where I was , and where I wanted to get to . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Why did they say you would tell me about Van Gogh ? " |
| 17 | There gon na be something that er , as you would tell me about . |
| 18 | I asked him why but he just smiled , shook his head and said he would tell me in his own good time . |
| 19 | ‘ I will be seeing the physio Peter Rostron today and he will tell me about a possible scan . |
| 20 | Perhaps the hon. Lady will tell me under which of the three Conservative Governments since 1979 the average rate of inflation was remotely near that of the Labour Government from whom we took over . |
| 21 | Well you 'd better get in , you can tell me on the way up . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You must go and then you can tell me of it afterwards . |
| 24 | There is nothing you can tell me about solicitors and the ways of the law with regard to legacies , Isabel . |
| 25 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Good , ’ she said , ‘ I want to know anything you can tell me about the problem with the business , daddy is honest and straight , he has a good name and what 's more , he knows how to choose good leather , so what can have gone wrong ? ’ |
| 27 | You can tell me about the Army after . |
| 28 | ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can . |
| 29 | " You can tell me about it . |
| 30 | And you can tell me about the Pitts . ’ |