Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 8.30am on his first day on the job , Mr Lobov summoned senior officials in his ministry and told them to draw up a plan for re-establishing state control over the economy . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 3 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 4 | I told her to make up a list of the contents now for her deposition the next day as I had forgotten to mention much of what was in my bag . |
| 5 | This command tells it to set up a storage area called Employees and to allocate space for Employee Number , Name , Department and any other items specified . |