Example sentences of "[pers pn] tells " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I tells us that for every positive integer n the statement S(n) is true . |
| 2 | If you tells us about your condition and accept the risks , we 're usually quite happy to accept your booking for all yacht holidays except Pot Luck or Share a Yacht . |
| 3 | You tells me . |
| 4 | How would you react when your best friend tells you tells you you 're really wicked ? |
| 5 | Fire , she tells me , has always been a source of goodness . |
| 6 | She tells me that when she came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1910 and met her husband Abe Moses , she could only speak Yiddish . |
| 7 | She tells me how her mum and dad know everything there is to know about fish , and tried to teach her . |
| 8 | Every time one of us dares contribute to the debate , she tells us with thriftiness of spirit and consonants of flint that we have no common sense . |
| 9 | She tells me that when she was a nippy ( of course I say what 's a nippy and she tells me it 's a waitress ) the worst sin the girls could commit , sackable instantly , was to whirl the pencils which were attached by string to their aprons . |
| 10 | She tells me that when she was a nippy ( of course I say what 's a nippy and she tells me it 's a waitress ) the worst sin the girls could commit , sackable instantly , was to whirl the pencils which were attached by string to their aprons . |
| 11 | They did the opposite , as usually happens when she tells people to do things . |
| 12 | The only sure method of avoiding capture , she tells me , is to walk backwards at all times , flicking every particle of dust from every footprint into the dustpan as you go . |
| 13 | And although she seems to disagree with its overall drift , she tells me she 's in complete accord with my views on what she called my ‘ blasted reconstruction ’ . ’ |
| 14 | Maybe there is a favourite aunt , she tells them these stories . |
| 15 | The woman in the shop 's pretty friendly and she tells me what to do with the plants — you know , water them once a week , or keep them out of draughts and that . |
| 16 | ‘ His hand was welded to my back ’ , she tells her daughter of the courtship with the paterfamilias now buried in an iron coffin . |
| 17 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 18 | ‘ I work two , maybe three , nights a week , ’ she tells me on the way to the flat she shares professionally with Barbara . |
| 19 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 20 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's something I learned when I was about four , ’ she tells us . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , she tells everybody that . |
| 23 | She tells me I 'm ‘ fat ’ and is always making derogatory remarks and criticising . |
| 24 | Even in her mass-selling video-tape , Kylie The Videos , she tells her fans : ‘ How long will it last ? |
| 25 | She looked at Mr Browning , startled , and he drew a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood away tenderly , saying , ‘ She tells me it is nothing , nothing she has not had before . ’ |
| 26 | But she tells me she still does not feel free . |
| 27 | She tells me the only freedom is that of the imagination . |
| 28 | She may not be brilliant , but she tells a straightforward story . |
| 29 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 30 | In a novel called For Love Alone , described by the publishers as a sexy sizzler , she tells how a Czech woman loses her husband to a leggy honey blonde with a soft Southern drawl . |