Example sentences of "tell [pron] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 2 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 3 | When she returned from the shops , Mum told me to accompany her to the Captain 's to ask if we could have the Mission Hall for the wedding . |
| 4 | Yo , your mum told you to do it in the nude ? |
| 5 | ‘ I thought my secretary told you to meet me at the house in Edinburgh ? |
| 6 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 7 | He dismissed the service and told us to follow him to the back rooms for counselling . |
| 8 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
| 9 | Now you 'll then have to look and see if they tell you to give it to the nearest metre or the nearest maybe the nearest maybe the nearest point one of a metre or three significant figures or three decimal places . |
| 10 | ‘ But even though they had nothing at the ports , if you offered one of them a bar of chocolate or a pack of cigarettes they would turn it down and tell you to send it to the Front . ’ |
| 11 | Tell him to join us in the admiral 's cabin at once . ’ |
| 12 | His leg comes to a sort of point , like the end of a pencil or summat and he tells me to shove it in the end of the false leg . |
| 13 | Crilly tells me to meet him at the Hope and Vixen in half an hour . |
| 14 | He tells me to meet him at the magistrates ' court the following morning , tells me to keep away from the scumbags . |