Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 2 | My ever difficult told me the other night I needed to change my attitudes and lifestyle and to realise I would not get another job at my age . |
| 3 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 4 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 5 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 6 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 7 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 9 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 10 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 11 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 12 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 13 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 14 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 15 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 16 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 17 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
| 18 | I tell you a good programme which used to be on was erm oh fucking Auf Wiedersehn Pet . |
| 19 | He 's the type that you 're gon na have to be firm with Lynn , tell him the only way he 's gon na accept it , is you tell him you just do n't love him |
| 20 | And I 'll tell you the only reason I took the baby home was because Martin wanted her . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you the unkindest thing I know about him : he was caught being beastly to a woman at a party for no obvious reason . |
| 22 | And he said , it 's most unlike me , as you probably know , but he said I could n't tell you the last time I had time off work , but he said , I have n't been into the office since th cos I 've been feeling really bad ! |
| 23 | What do I tell him the next time he asks |
| 24 | Yeah cos , my mates were telling me the other day what 's Gilly said ? |
| 25 | I 've also had people at forty plus telling me the same thing which is a nonsense . |
| 26 | Well in actual fact to te to tell you the honest truth we 've been so busy one way and another over the weekends have n't we ? |
| 27 | There is , however , an inevitable logic to the appropriation of her meticulously constructed image , a process which the artist was mocking as early as 1933 : ‘ … some of the gringa women are imitating me and trying to dress ‘ a la Mexicana ’ , but the poor souls only look like cabbages and to tell you the naked truth they look absolutely impossible . ' |