Example sentences of "i tell you [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't stayed in for about two months , about eight weeks , not one night , and he goes , ‘ I think you should stay in at least one ’ , and I goes , ‘ If you think I 'm staying in then you get lost , because I 'm not staying in this flaming house ’ , and he goes , ‘ You 're staying when I tell you to ’ , and I goes , ‘ I wo n't ’ , and I walked out and came back ten minutes later and said , ‘ I 'm going out , all right ? ’ and he goes , ‘ Okay ’ , and he give me some money to go out and come up here [ to the youth club ] . |
| 2 | And you , Rose , if you want to be useful you may keep everyone away , run any errands I may require , and take over from , or help McAllister , when I tell you to . |
| 3 | The parent attitude would be ‘ do it thus because I tell you to ’ , again crossing the stimulus/response lines . |
| 4 | As for me , I tell you as a friend , I feel impotent when confronted with such nature , for my Northern brains were oppressed by a nightmare in those peaceful spots as I felt one ought to do better things with the foliage . |
| 5 | When I tell you about your Osphronemus gourami you may wish you had done so . |
| 6 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
| 7 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 8 | ‘ Sydel , ’ he said , ‘ there is something , but if I tell you about it , it might not happen . ’ |
| 9 | Aye , the , the , as I tell you about the . |
| 10 | You ken when there , there are , this , this old Mary that I tell you about er , she 'd had smallpox when she was young , she used to be a herring gutter . |
| 11 | Before I tell you about it , do you agree to keep it a secret ? ’ |
| 12 | Now when I tell you about lodging houses , we had four registered lodging houses in Ipswich that they had at that time . |
| 13 | That will become quite significant when I tell you about call forwarding . |
| 14 | I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ? |
| 15 | I tell you in confidence , of course . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
| 17 | Notice what Jesus says in verse seven , he says , I tell you in the same way there 'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance . |
| 18 | I tell you in the same way , there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents . |
| 19 | I tell you before God , James , I did not kill your father . |