Example sentences of "i tell them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , to put them off , I told them I was quite clear about the type who attracted me and that there was no point in introducing me to anyone who did n't match up . |
| 2 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |
| 4 | I told them I know them well , their son is not the type who just gets in fights . |
| 5 | I went out where the rest of the staff were working and I told them ‘ I am leaving . |
| 6 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 7 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 8 | ‘ I told them I was n't interested , so it went up to half a million . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 10 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 11 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I told them I was prepared to answer emergencies for no pay and I 'm staying on until the end of my shift . |
| 13 | I told them that the grand piano was two feet too short and DeFries said , ‘ Cancel the gig — no gig . ’ |
| 14 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 16 | Rather to the surprise of my new employers , since I had been so eager to work for them , I told them I should not be able to start for a fortnight ( I needed to recover , being exhausted by my burden of guilt ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , if you could practise ‘ Viva Espana ’ for us to march to that 'll be nice , ’ I told them . |
| 18 | ‘ I swear it 's true , ’ I told them yet again . |
| 19 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 20 | In the end I told them , and they shut up . |
| 21 | All the youths seemed interested , so I told them stories of Black Magic in Sussex , a county particularly afflicted by Satan because of all the artistic people who live there , running craft shops or theatrical costumiers . |
| 22 | I prepared the orchestra very carefully , particularly for his jokes and set speeches , which I told them they must be amused by . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone who asked how I 'd done the lighting , I told them . ’ |
| 24 | I told them all not to worry , I would go on working with you as soon as you were conscious and we would see our way together to a solution of the whole case . ’ |
| 25 | The sums of money were enormous and I told them that there would be no more money once it had been spent . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But I told them if we could n't beat them without a boom , we did n't deserve to be in the finals . ’ |
| 27 | The boys could n't believe me but they had to do what I told them to do … . |
| 28 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 29 | ‘ I told them , ’ Bernard whispered to me , ‘ tie your bags up on the rack but they would n't listen . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ History could well be made under this roof , ’ I told them . |