Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adj] [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 | I 'll tell them malicious gossip about the rest of the club and I 'll become a kind of mascot . |
| 5 | Look , stop it , but do n't tell them next time . |
| 6 | Yeah , but we 'll tell them next meeting . |
| 7 | He would tell them some story — precisely what , he had not decided — and in due course they would check and discover its falsehood . |
| 8 | Has it to do with what you said as you 'd tell me one day ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Excuse me , sir , but could you tell me one thing ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Catherine , ’ he said , ‘ you must tell me one thing . |
| 11 | And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | Oh do n't tell me fucking grill 's packed up . |
| 17 | Ca can you tell me another thing about the abortions , do you know erm if , of course abortion was illegal then , do you |
| 18 | Please do n't tell me next week 's the twenty ninth . |
| 19 | Yo go on you can tell me this joke and then you can finish . |
| 20 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me last night ? ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Did I tell you that story ? |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I might tell you that Uncle follows a pattern that was forced upon him . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Experiment with the colour — I will tell you that white gives extra body to your colour , extra covering power . |
| 27 | The physics department would tell you that chemistry 's only a bit of physics anyway . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Do n't let anyone tell you that diet and exercise do n't go together . |