Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] tell [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I forget to tell you the other night . |
| 2 | I want I want to tell you a secret |
| 3 | I did n't deliver , to tell a lie , but I did tell you a slight wrong thing . |
| 4 | The longer I waited to tell her the harder it became . |
| 5 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If I 've told you once I 've told you a thousand times , ’ he said , ‘ your catapults are for stoning the Brits — not for shooting sticky buds at me , right . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've told you a thousand times we ca n't afford it , or rather , I 'm not going to afford it . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've told you a dozen times . |
| 9 | I 've told you a dozen times — I wo n't have him . " |
| 10 | I have to tell you the terrible things I thought about you when I stumbled into that nursery , part of the rooms you had locked away from me . |
| 11 | As the Tory pamphleteer of the Exclusion Crisis , John Nalson , had advised his readers : " If you think , and find I have told you a plain Truth … inform the Ignorant , confront the Impudent , satisfie the Doubtful and Staggering , and unite the Loyal " . |
| 12 | Now I wanted to tell you a little bit too before we leave about one of the ARC publications that may be of interest to those of you who are self-propelled . |
| 13 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 14 | But I was not sure that she had told me the whole truth . |
| 15 | But she was n't feeling easy with him now , and as he pushed an easy-chair closer to her couch , and sat down opposite her , she had the uncanniest feeling that he was n't going to let her out of the room until she had told him every last bit of what there was to tell . |
| 16 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 17 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 18 | If you choose me then you have to tell me the whole truth — who your accomplice is . |
| 19 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 20 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 21 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |
| 22 | He had told her the one thing of importance , even if nothing else made any sense . |
| 23 | He wanted to tell her the whole story then , but he was afraid of what she might think . |
| 24 | But he 's told me the main months . |
| 25 | And he 's told her the whole story so Noel 's gone home and his mum 's gone , what 's that on your neck ? |