Example sentences of "tell this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 2 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 3 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 4 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 5 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 6 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |
| 8 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 9 | ( I told this lad what I thought of what he said too ) . |
| 10 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 11 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |
| 12 | ‘ I told this O'Hara fellow about her mother this morning . |
| 13 | I 'm told this Sharpe is an extremely uncouth man and is more than likely to fillet Johnny . ’ |
| 14 | He was all ready to be wheeled into theatre at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital for an artery replacement in his heart when he was told this afternoon that the operation was off.The intensive care unit bed he would use to recover from after surgery had been taken by another , more urgent case . |
| 15 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 16 | see what happened is , I came over and he says , you know I 've told this lady that you saw the man standing beside her and she went she sort of , she described him , apparently he was very tall which |
| 17 | Francis Lavelle , managing director of Solaic , said the company expects to do $70m all told this year , of which $58m should come from card manufacture , $9.6m from customisation services , and $2.5m from systems engineering . |
| 18 | But we 've also been told this year , that there will be year four , beyond this slide , where the same thing could happen again . |
| 19 | You 've just told this man |
| 20 | You 've just told this man that he his experience is invalid . |
| 21 | On some cases yes because I was always told this man he that used to come and he was so clean looking and that he was a barber . |
| 22 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 23 | I have told this story umpteen times before , but in this context it bears repeating . |
| 24 | The first advertisement to appear told this story under the headline , " Before you choose the pattern , choose the china . " |
| 25 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 26 | So even Evelyn Waugh 's told this story . |
| 27 | I was told this morning at work , so I do nt have exact details of where and when the games will be played . |
| 28 | Er I was being told this morning by not the Government that of the twenty million employed in this country , at least a quarter has been affected , has been affected by the disturbances in , in employment in recent years , so it does n't matter you see whether your gun shot massage the figures . |
| 29 | And it 's important that the kind of story that we 're being told this morning , or to continue to be told , we are to continually hear and observing |
| 30 | The defendant on being told this alibi must immediately amplify it under questioning , and can be ‘ gonged ’ for undue hesitation in answering or for any vagueness in answering ( he must not say ‘ I think so ’ or ‘ That is probably what I would have done ’ ) . |