Example sentences of "tell [pron] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you tell them that smoking is banned on the Underground ? |
| 2 | The round dance does not tell the recruits the direction to food , but it does tell them that food is nearby . |
| 3 | We 'll make the poor Weavers work at a low rate ; We 'll find fault where there 's no fault , and so we will bate ; If trading goes dead , we will presently show it ; But if it grows bad , they shall never know it ; We 'll tell them that cloth beyond sea will not go , We care not whether we keep clothing or no . |
| 4 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 5 | And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’ |
| 6 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 7 | and , er , ah but you spoke to Catherine on the phone and I was out , and you did n't tell me that part , and erm |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 9 | His face was infuriatingly bland as he answered , ‘ Did n't you tell me that night when I gave you a lift home that your life fairly buzzed with — shall we say — events ? ’ |
| 10 | Ca can you tell me another thing about the abortions , do you know erm if , of course abortion was illegal then , do you |
| 11 | Yo go on you can tell me this joke and then you can finish . |
| 12 | Since I was asking young women to talk freely about a highly personal and intimate area of their lives , I thought it only fair that I should also tell my own story , and set out some of my reasons for my interest in the subject . |
| 13 | Other people could probably tell their own tale about the impact it 's having on the way in which they have to work and the ways in which they have to respond . |
| 14 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 15 | It 's also double-bound in white plastic , which should tell you that Fender have simplified production by using the exact same bodies you 'd find on the ‘ 62 rosewood-neck reissues . |
| 16 | Did I tell you that story ? |
| 17 | ‘ Well , I might tell you that Uncle follows a pattern that was forced upon him . |
| 18 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 19 | Experiment with the colour — I will tell you that white gives extra body to your colour , extra covering power . |
| 20 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 21 | Any good old-fashioned butcher will tell you that beef and lamb must be hung , in a cold store , for at least a week to 10 days . |
| 22 | On particularly clear days ( the locals will tell you that midwinter provides the best of them ) the view reaches as far as the Vosges in France and Switzerland 's Jura . |
| 23 | Do n't let anyone tell you that diet and exercise do n't go together . |
| 24 | He was gon na tell you this morning he said look at me with daddy ! |
| 25 | Well fine I wo n't tell you this time ! |
| 26 | " Your mother will tell you this evening , " he said , and the sound of the horses ' hooves echoed on flagstones as they went through the arched entrance into the yard . |
| 27 | I can tell you this place is a bloody paradise compared with Fresnes . |
| 28 | And I could tell you another story as well , I maybe used to pinch an apple out of one of the barrels . |
| 29 | And I 'll tell you another thing , you 're too much of a liability . |
| 30 | " But I 'll tell you another thing , " he said . |