Example sentences of "tell me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nurse told me a policeman wanted to see me , but visitors had been barred until tomorrow . |
| 2 | ‘ The vice-minister of the atomic energy industry told me a nuclear plant was being built to cope with the power shortage , ’ said the defector . |
| 3 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody told me a very good memory game to play the other day . |
| 5 | Someone here once told me a story about the most notorious of the dictators who ruled this country at the turn of the century . |
| 6 | When my grandmother told me a little later on that my mother had gone away , I was glad . |
| 7 | Tony said : ‘ The Tories told me a fairytale about being hard-up . ’ |
| 8 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ James told me a lot . |
| 10 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 11 | We spent the morning raking gently , and he told me a long and obscene story about a girl called Tina Jelly from Aldershot . |
| 12 | Another school-dinner lady in Wigan told me a typical tale : |
| 13 | ‘ My dear , it is time you told me a little more about it . |
| 14 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 15 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 16 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
| 17 | I 'm pretty sure he told me a boy , I think . |
| 18 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 19 | I hate him now , because he told me a lie , that you would never return , and you have returned ! |
| 20 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 21 | My father told me a joke once , about a man who marries an ugly opera singer because he loves her voice . |
| 22 | Under question , Edward told me a little more about Laura 's past than she herself was willing to volunteer . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 25 | It 's taken you too long to come to terms with Mark 's death — Anne told me a little of how it 's been with you , the way you 've fought the grief and sorrow . ’ |
| 26 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 27 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 28 | He told me a bleak story of life out there in the fax field . |
| 29 | ‘ But unfortunately for him when he told me a bit about what was on the disk I had a blinding flash of inspiration . ’ |
| 30 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |