Example sentences of "tell [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told them to wait a minute and shoot us down , ’ Anna May whispered into my ear , ‘ like dogs . ’ |
| 2 | He told them to sort out the terrorists by whatever means they chose . |
| 3 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 4 | I told them to put a tourniquet on my arm and give me some morphia , whereupon one of them started to bandage my wrist and the other went off to ask what morphia was . |
| 5 | He told them to put their pushers out to undercut Huey 's prices . |
| 6 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 7 | Finally , in growing anger , I told them to perform an unlikely act upon themselves — they stared — and turned away . |
| 8 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 9 | First he told them to lay off me , and when they sneered and said what would happen if they did n't , he merely replied , ‘ A series of inexplicable misfortunes . ’ |
| 10 | The caller told them to say the man 's full name out loud . |
| 11 | I told them to say we were n't interested . |
| 12 | He also told them to stop complaining about the electoral system . |
| 13 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 14 | ‘ I told them to stop competing . |
| 15 | Eventually he got fed up and told them to stop bothering him and ignored their letters . |
| 16 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 17 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 18 | The doctors told them to talk to him as much as possible and to play tapes of his favourite music , but Ken Lomax did not respond to their long , rambling , one-way conversations or the endless repetitions of his favourite country and western music . |
| 19 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 20 | Lady Horne told them to sit whilst behind them the girl lit candles . |
| 21 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 22 | Finally Miss Thorne refused to wait any longer and told them to take a short break while she left the hall to make a phone call to Hillbrook Farm . |
| 23 | Pat told them to take what they liked and Carrie gave them linen and other items which were now impossible to buy . |
| 24 | ‘ I told them to go and camp on Rickling Heath , which is public land , if they must stay . |
| 25 | In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured . |
| 26 | The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and , without explanation , told them to go quickly outside the barn . |
| 27 | He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave . |
| 28 | Juliet tapped , and a voice told them to go in . |
| 29 | Because it 's their own fault for going to , nobody told them to go and do it , did they ? |
| 30 | The twentysomethings sniggered so he told them to shut up , gaining an instant roar of approval from the same people . |