Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | get the best , most intelligent and well educated singers available , with the cleanest vocal style , tell them nothing about how you want the performance to go , start them off and lo ! the composer speaks through their innocent mouths . |
| 2 | The one thing about advertising er Patrick is that we tell them everything on the phone . |
| 3 | In advertising you tell them everything on the phone |
| 4 | ‘ But you must show me the books , tell me everything about the business . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me everything about her death , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ Then you tell me everything in brief , and quickly . |
| 7 | Tell me something about yourself . |
| 8 | Tell me something about your urinal which you sent to the Independents Exhibition , signed R. Mutt ? |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me something about her life . ’ |
| 10 | Tell me something about yourself first . |
| 11 | And now that you 've finished bolting your food , tell me something about yourself . |
| 12 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 13 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 14 | Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 15 | ‘ Tell me something in the last eight years that I 've said . |
| 16 | Tell me them at least . " |
| 17 | Tt erm the magazine , a magazine 's a good way of getting referrals I ca n't remember who it is , somebody who er Ken I think it is , er uses the magazines as a great way of saying erm you 've read that in the magazine , you 've found it useful , tell me what about the chaps at Excon , who , who else would you work with who would find it useful to have a subscription , some kind of subscription , who , who should be placed on our mailing list . |
| 18 | These are the sort of people whose wines deserve to do well ( and do ) entirely on their merits , and I would like to be allowed to put my faith in wine merchants such as the Kendricks or Simon Loftus of Adnams when they tell me which of their wines are eco-friendly . |
| 19 | Now , tell me which of these two you want to go for ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I tell yer lots of things but you never even listen . |
| 21 | Then stupidly , she answered , ‘ Tell you what about Ryan ? ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , but I tell you what about then I says to him I went to him and says erm about the stamp thirty one hundred , he says erm |
| 23 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
| 24 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
| 25 | ‘ IF anyone thinks the bald figures tell you anything about the quality or hard work of the consultant , then they are living in cloud cuckoo land ’ — Karl Fortes Mayer , 51 , a general surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands , commenting on publication of his patient waiting times . |
| 26 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 27 | Likewise , tables of the age distribution in certain selected parishes in early-modern England tell us nothing about how structured dependence has altered qualitatively over time . |
| 28 | Second , the new schemes of metazoan phylogeny tell us nothing about the actual anatomical and functional transitions between related phyla . |
| 29 | However , these quantitative data tell us nothing about the quality or importance of the relationship . |
| 30 | In the second place , the correlations that are produced are merely statements about associations , and tell us nothing about the direction of cause and effect . |