Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] tell the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
| 2 | I must tell the hon. Gentleman that , as a new Member of Parliament , he should be more concerned with the possibility of improving the delivery of health care to his constituents . |
| 3 | Of course it 's early days yet , I suppose , but I do so wish there was someone I could tell the whole story to . |
| 4 | I shall tell the hon. Gentleman a little more about the two individuals , if I may , in a brief intervention . |
| 5 | I will tell the hon. Gentleman what it is . |
| 6 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 7 | Unlike the Labour party and the Militant Tendency we tend not to have card-carrying women , but I can tell the hon. Lady , although I was not asked this question , that precisely 50 per cent . |
| 8 | But I can tell the Hon. Gentleman that sufficient time will be given to take all such considerations properly into account . |
| 9 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman about the review , which was commissioned in 1989 . |
| 10 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that his local authority of Dumbarton will benefit . |
| 11 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman with the full authority of my office and my responsibility for the programme that if one cuts £6 billion from the defence budget no defence job in the country will be safe . |
| 12 | At present , other matters are proceeding , but I can tell the hon. Gentleman — I am grateful to him for seeking clarification — that in respect of a further order for type 23s , I expect that to be at a broadly similar interval comparing this with the previous order that was placed . |
| 13 | I can tell the hon. Gentleman that the offshore safety division is a separate , discrete , independent division of the Health and Safety Executive . |
| 14 | However , I can tell the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan what I am seeking to achieve . |
| 15 | They named their eldest son Benjamin , after his maternal grandfather , and she would tell the young lad when he grew up of how she had been taught piano and organ by Benjamin James her father , there in that big house in Curry Rivel where they used to hang hams or sides of bacon in the huge chimney piece . |
| 16 | We ought to tell the whole story to Zacco. , |
| 17 | We shall tell the full story of Charles Frederick Titford in due course ; enough for now to say that he would be outlived by his widowed mother , who was 80 when she died at 24 Warner Street , Lower Holloway , on 4 March 1902 , ‘ Widow of Benjamin Titford , Commercial clerk ’ . |
| 18 | When we get into government , as we shall some time early next year , we will tell the Common Market to stuff its directive on hours . |
| 19 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |