Example sentences of "to tell [pron] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To tell them a subject what 's the next step I 've got ta do ? |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps you would like to tell them a story , ’ said the aunt . |
| 3 | We er You always made friends with people , could talk to people and if they want to miserable they can be miserable , you 'd got to tell them a tale , whether you know it or not . |
| 4 | Kagan arrived in my office and proceeded to tell me a story , which I can now recount as it is in the public domain . |
| 5 | MR RICHARDS : First of all I d like you to tell me a bit about what you 've been doing . |
| 6 | On the morning of the fifteenth of January , Bessie rushed up to my room , to tell me a visitor wanted to see me . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't have to tell me a thing , ’ he said firmly , and she felt a rush of grateful affection . |
| 8 | ‘ This is one of my favourite shows , so if you 're going to tell me a bunch of big lies about what happened to your legs , well , I 'll just go back to watching my show . ’ |
| 9 | And although his father said : ‘ lt was thet boy o' mine ! ’ , the bent drill-furrow was always a source of leg-pulling between the two friendly rivals : ‘ You 're not a ‘ going to tell me a tale like thet , Walter Cater . |
| 10 | During the afternoon drinking in Barcelona , I ask him to tell me a joke . |
| 11 | Some of them remained behind to tell me a length how the object was a perfect focus for their festival that was being held in memory of one of their multi-armed folk heroes . |
| 12 | If we want to tell somebody a fact about the world — let's say that John ate fish and chips — we have a number of ways in which we can put this into a sentence . |
| 13 | Because of the ontological indeterminacy inherent in the narrative , it is often impossible to tell who an interlocutor is , or whether a scene is being remembered or merely imagined by one of the characters involved . |
| 14 | I 'm going to tell you a story . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd like to tell you a story . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I 'm not here to tell you a story . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story . ’ |
| 18 | Because ’ — his speech slurred a fraction — ‘ I 'm going to tell you a story I heard the other day which I could n't possibly tell you if you had a lady Archdeacon . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I 'd like to tell you a story about a vision of Ministry in East Wales . |
| 20 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 21 | Can I , can I , yes I was going to tell you a story |
| 22 | But I 'll have to tell you a bit of my history . |
| 23 | So I took his arm and made him sit down again , and I said , I 'm going to tell you a fairy story . |
| 24 | ‘ David said to me : ‘ Come over here , Luke wants to tell you a secret . ’ |
| 25 | By the time I 've finished with this room and had the forensic lab 's report I 'll be able to tell you a lot more than his mother ever knew about him . |
| 26 | ‘ Daddy 's going to tell you a bedtime story . ’ |
| 27 | And therefore I , I would like to tell you an experience I had in Madagascar because it 's one of the things that will be in my memory on my deathbed . |
| 28 | Tom handed him a towel and after he had dried himself and had his hair rubbed and combed and had put his pyjamas on , he sat down on the pouffe by the armchair while Tom sat ready to tell him a story . |
| 29 | I 've just got to tell her a secret . |
| 30 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |