Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 2 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 3 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 5 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 6 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 7 | She told me some of her story then . |
| 8 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 9 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 10 | Many of the old people who did this job sixty and seventy years ago told me some of their experiences . |
| 11 | Last time we spoke you told me some lies . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 13 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 14 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
| 15 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 16 | If somebody told you some nigger boxer from Loovul , Kentucky would become better known than Jesus Christ , you 'd tell ‘ em , ‘ You crazy . ’ |
| 17 | I think I told you some months ago that I would be asking you to consider that |
| 18 | I put her down on the couch and said , ‘ Just put your head back , ’ and told her some Alexander Principles . |
| 19 | I told her some Cliff Top stuff , about my sort of overprotective mother and my absent father . |
| 20 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 21 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 22 | You recall what that minstrel told us some weeks back , Ralf ? |
| 23 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
| 24 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 25 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 26 | ‘ He has told me some very important things . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me some then ! ’ she said , squeezing his hand and releasing it . |
| 28 | Tell me tell me some of the bits in the nitrogen cycle then , go on . |
| 29 | Tell me some bits then and work out Could you draw a picture of |
| 30 | Tell me some of the things that happen when you 're you 're working out a function , what would what would be the the overall picture if someone was going to work out a function ? |