Example sentences of "tell i [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The computer told me its name . |
| 2 | As I ate , Dr Livesey told me their story . |
| 3 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 4 | ‘ They told me her bra was torn . |
| 5 | My first book , When Sixpence Was A Fortune , has reached many corners of the world — a lady told me her sister read some of the poems to an audience of exiled Scots in New Zealand and half the folk there ‘ wiz greetin' ’ ! |
| 6 | A women sat outside her hut cooking some grass seeds for her two teenage children , both of whom were painfully thin and too weak to stand , and told me her story : Her husband had been shot months ago , and when the food ran out in her village her only choice was to come to Kismayo where aid agency food was arriving . |
| 7 | In the massage parlour at lunchtime , Molly Lugg told me her son was now unemployed because his boss , Trevor Proby , was ‘ in chains ’ and she would be grateful if I could find him something to do , as he spends all his time kicking his heels , mostly through shop windows in the High Street . |
| 8 | And she told me her name when I asked , she said Mary Mother of God . |
| 9 | ‘ She takes her golf very seriously ; she told me her clubs are a matched set and I imagine they 're worth quite a lot of money . |
| 10 | I had n't been in your shop two minutes before she asked me my birth date and told me her hobby is astrology . ’ |
| 11 | When he told me her name I was so pleased , but when I met her , well , she 's as English as Yorkshire pudding . |
| 12 | ‘ She told me her brother held his castle for the Empress , that he had sent her to Gloucester , that she was estranged from him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I wish she had confided in me — told me her reasons . |
| 14 | ‘ Eleanor told me her late father was Principal of Brigston . |
| 15 | No no but Celia , Ruby Ruby told me her husband has to do with bankrupt office stock |
| 16 | You told me your Uncle Walter is willing to hand over the entire estate to you anytime you wish . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You told me your family had cast you off , ’ he said sullenly . |
| 18 | Told me your real feeling about … oh , about life and writing and things . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The reason I 'm here is because my brother phoned me and told me your cousin was in urgent need of a tutor . |
| 20 | ‘ He told me your club was one of the main places in the operation . ’ |
| 21 | You — you told me your grandmother was — ’ |
| 22 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 23 | the first time you told me your age I went |
| 24 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 25 | Watched by an Italianate studio owner , Tony Verrechia , he told me his story . |
| 26 | We relaxed into another large bottle of Cusqueño beer as Barry told me his story . |
| 27 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 28 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 29 | The expenditure of public money on this , yet another television service , has been criticized in some quarters , but the Governor told me his decision was based on the fact , as he saw it , of NTV 's pro-Federal bias . |
| 30 | When I first met Richard , he told me his grandfather had been ‘ a parson ’ . |