Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will someone tell me what is going on ? ’ |
| 2 | Well now , at the end of that six months I 'd had varied success , sometimes I had poor periods when I was n't detecting much , then I would have a little break , do better , but at the end of the six months nobody told me whether I was stopping there , but twenty years later I did go back to uniform as an inspector . |
| 3 | Their Northern Ireland president is Billy McCormick from Craigavad who tells me that membership is 200 and rising , and new recruits are always welcome . |
| 4 | One story was about the ghost she see — this is the story whe she tell me wha% she see , alright . |
| 5 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 6 | She was approached by talking book company chief Clive Stanhope who tells me : ‘ I met Julie when she was in rep in the 60s in a comedy called The City Madam — she was marvellous but the play has n't been performed since . ’ |
| 7 | I met a brother-in-law who told me to leave but I stayed another night in our new house just outside the village . |
| 8 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 9 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 10 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 11 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 12 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 13 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |
| 14 | Afterwards in the pub someone told me he would probably be sent down . |
| 15 | But he tempered the apprehensiveness with a shrug-of-the-shoulders-and-oh-what-the-hell attitude which told me that in his view the experience , and not the heroics of the impression he might create , was what mattered , was what he would enjoy , was what he had come for . |
| 16 | You can buy them to do the lattice somebody told me . |
| 17 | Without looking up from her work she tells me something she has done or discovered or thought or decided during the day . |
| 18 | The following two snippets I shall pass on , with the caution that the bloke who told me is a Man U supporter . |
| 19 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 20 | The girl you told me about years ago . |
| 21 | Indeed at times it appears that she thinks that this liberation progresses from age to age ( though in correspondence she tells me that she thinks that the conclusion to history may well be that we annihilate ourselves ) . |
| 22 | Be interesting cos you can hear exactly what they 're saying , mm I say people like Simon and Doreen who do n't erm televise much and you 've got the telephone you told me do n't you ? |
| 23 | I told her what had happened and she took it all in her stride , and once she 'd stopped laughing about Simon she told me to head for the pub where I 'd dropped Clara . |
| 24 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
| 25 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 26 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
| 27 | There was the gentle , bearded Hans Jenisch who told me of his hesitancy before giving the orders to fire torpedoes . |
| 28 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 29 | ‘ So that story you told me … |
| 30 | Not that syrupy old Whatsisname you told me about at the beginning … |