Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My head tells me it 's good ; my heart tells me I 'd happily never hear it again . |
| 2 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 3 | I must do what my heart tells me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My heart tells me we need look no further than him . ’ |
| 5 | My heart told me she would n't . |
| 6 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 7 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 8 | My experience tells me that we do not all have all the necessary skills to do all these jobs well — it is often a hit and miss affair , with much poor practice . |
| 9 | Although I was about to confront him , my experience told me that he was — well , I 've no words for it : on a different plane of reality . |
| 10 | After all the expected taunts from me that he would not have the nerve and my mum telling him he was crazy , we decided to go along and watch . |
| 11 | but erm he described a , my mum told her everything about a fall the bump on her head , he knew |
| 12 | When I left Uganda after my marriage , my mum told me , never write anything to me about your troubles because you did n't listen to us . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , my Mum told me not to let boys fondle me or kiss me now I 've started me periods , otherwise , if I did , I 'd soon be having a baby . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then my mum told me it was terrible . ’ |
| 15 | My mum told me it was nude ! |
| 16 | I told her that what she said was a load of bollocks , and one thing led to another and my mum told me she was n't allowing me to take Natasha with me . |
| 17 | My mum told me . ’ |
| 18 | my mum told me to wipe some of it , some of it off cos I could n't her shout , I , I , I caught her shouting at my sister , she got really angry with my sister |
| 19 | Erm we done a little but we had n't done that much yet , but my sister tells me as we go , as the year go on and do a bit more about it . |
| 20 | And my sister told me that she met with him after Mass this morning and he gave her an envelope . " |
| 21 | My famous bump of Flinders savvy , my sangay tells me … ’ |
| 22 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 23 | ‘ Nobody taught me , but my mind tells my fingers what to do , and I can make music . ’ |
| 24 | The promptings of my mind told me to get out of computing and go to live in Shropshire on a small dairy farm making highly profitable specialist products such as goat 's milk yoghurt , sheep 's cheese and traditional butter . |
| 25 | My mind told me she could n't . |
| 26 | She paused , her head bent , ‘ There 's strange , because I 'd made up my mind to tell him to go anyway . ’ |
| 27 | There 's enough examples of that and you read , the most peculiar thing I , I think I was telling , I do n't know if I was telling Iris I have a notion I had , had it in my mind to tell you and you turned up with this blind girl to do this M C |
| 28 | In 1966 , soon after the book appeared , my agent told me that someone wanted to make a film out of it . |
| 29 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ My agent told you about the remuneration ? ’ |