Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My grandad was a bronco buster when he was younger , ’ William used to tell them at school , and they 'd scoffed , even Preston , who was meant to be his Minder . |
| 2 | ‘ Hey , I ca n't wait to tell them at school . |
| 3 | Useless to tell them to book early for the peak period : they came in droves . |
| 4 | Newspaper correspondents and representatives of the Ministry of Information were frequent visitors to Burma , and we did our best to give them what news we had , to tell them about government hopes and plans , and to extract from them any news and wisdom they had to give us . |
| 5 | And they used to tell me at home . |
| 6 | DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT ? |
| 7 | Do you want to tell me in English then we 'll help you . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend was kind enough to tell me in answer to a question on the third problem , asking him whether he would make the east-west A427 a trunk road , that it came under the county council 's responsibility for bypasses . |
| 9 | Then he will go on to tell you about hypnotherapy in general and his own way of working in particular . |
| 10 | The purpose of this Guide for New Students is to tell you about enrolment procedures , and to give you some general information about the University . |
| 11 | His response : ‘ You may not believe this but I 'm not allowed to tell you on council notepaper . ’ |
| 12 | But it also has built in a Help facility , teaching aids , so that if at some point in the middle of developing your program you forget something , you can ask the system erm to tell you for instance how to use one of its facilities , and you can get onto the screen some information about that , and then carry on where you were , and you can switch easily between different modes . |
| 13 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 14 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 15 | Er in fact most of the radiation we get in fact is not from nuclear power , it 's from erm man made sourc it 's from , from natural sources eighty seven percent of the population as an average comes from our natural environment a lot comes from radon gas erm a small amount of radioactivity in our food erm we were discussing at er er lunch in , in fact the benefits of , of eating er low sodium salt salt is meant to be bad for you so the health er er er freaks say and it 's the sodium , therefore you should buy low sodium salt which is calcium chloride rather than sodium chloride what they forget to tell you of course is that potassium er sorry it 's , it 's potassium chloride rather than er than s than sodium chloride , what they forget , forget to tell you of course is that potassium is slightly radioactive it contains erm a small amount of , of a naturally occurring radioactive potassium so you get a small dose of radiation er to compensate for the fact you are n't eating any sodium . |
| 16 | It would take far too long to tell you in detail how I identified the specific genetic patterns of these chromosomes ; you 'll have to accept my assurance that I believe I did identify them . ’ |
| 17 | She had yearned for a glimpse of him , and had wanted to tell him about Lovat herself , to make sure that he understood her reasons . |
| 18 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 19 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 20 | You will remember that this is a commendation given to a shop or dealer on behalf of a reader who has written to tell us of service above and beyond the call of duty . |