Example sentences of "tell they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 4 | I went to my bosses and told them that , in The Wedding Present , there was another one out of the same rough balloon with the potential to be a long-lasting , album-selling , international act . |
| 5 | If I told them that , they 'd think I meant daydreaming . |
| 6 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 7 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 8 | Before sending the jury out yesterday , Mr Justice Turner told them that to convict they must be sure an ordinary person would have regarded the means by which Ward obtained the cash as dishonest . |
| 9 | because if we told them that |
| 10 | Oh I two ghosts came in here , we told them that |
| 11 | He said I told them that . |
| 12 | I told him about paint work under the bonnet , Mark had they 'd mentioned some paint work had got ta be dealt with and that passenger door with the draught and I told them that . |
| 13 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 14 | The sergeant told them all about the cattle trucks and how Charles had soon put a stop to that . |
| 15 | I told them all the positive things , of the love I had seen , of Nancy , of Tom , Dick and Harry and of my various forms of visualization . |
| 16 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 17 | The first to come , and one of the most interesting from Pumfrey 's point of view , was Tom Tedder , who sprawled easily in his chair , seemed as little tensed up as it is possible to be when involved in a murder case , and told them all they needed to know about the teachers ' attitude to the school 's star pupil . |
| 18 | Corbett told them all to shut up . |
| 19 | Moore told them all about the events of the previous nights . |
| 20 | I told them all I knew except the one thing the great cardinal wanted . ’ |
| 21 | Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria . |
| 22 | It looked through the small door window , asked what was going on , and then told them all to stand back . |
| 23 | Exactly and we went to the school , we told them all about it , we phoned the school , we kept saying |
| 24 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 25 | Yeah well b well what I 'm trying to say and I ca n't emphasise it too strongly is that I do n't want anybody going round like writing another stupid letter to somebody saying that erm you know the reason we 're inundated that it has n't been advertised properly cos I tell you what it 'll come back right in our faces cos it 's our bloody fault Well that 's right well we know that I mean I told them all I told them all quite clearly when I was up in Glasgow that they 'd be quiet for at least a month because p it 'll take time to filter through . |
| 26 | The recruiting sergeant told them all to disembark , stretch their legs and grab another cup of char , and added that if they were lucky they might even get something to eat . |
| 27 | Every one of them I told them all about peep hole |
| 28 | I told them all you 're forty seven |
| 29 | In the morning , everything was just as it always was when Mother went away ; much pleasanter , with nobody quarrelling even in that dreadful quiet way of just looking and going out of rooms when other people came into them , and Gran told them several good long stories in the evening . |
| 30 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |