Example sentences of "tell [pron] how [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also diminish their status when you tell them how to react : ‘ I 'm sorry , this is going to be boring — but here goes ’ or ‘ I 'm going to tell you a very funny story now . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now tell me how to deal with it . ’ |
| 3 | Do n't make me think about it , just tell me how to do it ! |
| 4 | Regarding your issue on Personal Violence , ( NI 187 ) , can you or any of your readers tell me how to differentiate between erotica and pornography ? |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me how to please you so that I can court you . ’ |
| 6 | be like that with me my dear , I said , tell me how to run my son 's business ! |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me how to help , ’ he said . |
| 8 | " You tell me how to get to the seneschal 's office , " Quiss said evenly , " or I shall boil you alive , understand ? " |
| 9 | tell me how to pay for my wedding . |
| 10 | Tell me how to find the place . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me how to find her , Mum , ’ she said softly . |
| 12 | Now tell me how to walk . |
| 13 | Right , we 'll go through them then erm and I would like to put your hands up tell me how to spell them . |
| 14 | Tell you how to do , see , right Gail ? |
| 15 | On a more serious note , on page 80 we tell you how to save your child 's life , should an emergency — like electric shock or scalding — occur . |
| 16 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 17 | They tell you how to complete the payslips and how to pay . |
| 18 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 19 | Each year thousands of new travel and guidebooks are published : there are Red , Green and Blue guides , rough guides , city guides , travel-on-the-cheap guides ; there are even guides which tell you how to read an airline ticket . |
| 20 | Or at least tell him how to get there , or give him the money to get in when he did get there , or at least lend him a map with a cross marked on it , or give him an address . |
| 21 | These map programs take a fair bit of work , and can not be drawn up on the launching ship ; the sailors load a ready-made map into the missile , and tell it how to get to the initial way-point . |
| 22 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 23 | In likening natural science to religion , Winch is presenting both as ways of ordering experience by means of rules which tell us how to go on . |
| 24 | Instead we allow it to open our letters , read them and tell us how to reply . |