Example sentences of "tell i the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Between them , my new-found friends told me the story . |
| 32 | Told me the Emma Bates got a direct hit . |
| 33 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 34 | Thing once told me the Ship flies very fast . |
| 35 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 36 | He told me the daughter was a bad lot though . |
| 37 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 38 | SHE TOLD me the story , but not before she had advised me that she was absolutely scandalized . |
| 39 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 40 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 41 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 42 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 43 | ‘ I believe someone invested in the business , ’ replied Sarah vaguely , ‘ but he never told me the details , and I did n't like to pry . ’ |
| 44 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 45 | One afternoon , while walking in the gardens of Thornfield , he told me the story of his love-affair in Paris with a French dancer , Céline . |
| 46 | This morning , as I cooked Crowe breakfast , he told me the story had ‘ national ’ written all over it . |
| 47 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 48 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 49 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 50 | He closed his moist , red-rimmed eyes and , in a voice soft and careful , told me the story of St Tom . |
| 51 | ‘ Someone told me the hedge is centuries old . |
| 52 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 53 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 54 | ‘ Poniatowski told me the Party decided that silence was best . |
| 55 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 56 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 57 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 58 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 60 | You told me the truth . ’ |