Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did enjoy our cup of tea together , and thank you for trusting me enough to tell me about your husband 's alcoholism . |
| 2 | And then : oh , please , if there have to be more lies , at least let me only tell them to other people , not to myself any more . |
| 3 | So I er , I politely told him what he could do with that , well , I was eating his dinner and I could n't be too rude to him , but erm , you know , when er when , when confronted , I do n't give ground over that kind of thing . |
| 4 | When I eventually told her , she was devastated … . an' me dad too . |
| 5 | My father taught me that there is only one thing more boring in life than listening to other people 's dreams and that is listening to stories about their operations ; and I only tell mine now because those I had during the early 1980s are as good an example as any of how modern medicine has helped to prolong life ; without them it is unlikely that I would be sitting here writing this . |
| 6 | So it was his turn to ask questions and , of course , I only told him what I wanted to . |
| 7 | ‘ I only told you about her staying away a lot and men turning up looking for her and things like that . |
| 8 | I only told you so you know he — he — well , he likes her . |
| 9 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 10 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 11 | ‘ Jo asked if she could go out and I just told her not to be late , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I just told her that she looked like everyone else , although I 'm sure that was n't what she wanted to hear . |
| 13 | I just told her that it might be interesting for me to get to know something of France , after all I was still young for University Entrance and could probably arrange to do some of the work here . |
| 14 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 15 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 16 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |
| 17 | No I just told her the truth , I wanted wanted some of her |
| 18 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 19 | I just told them you 'd had your hair cut really short |
| 20 | I mean they 're the ones who are badgering me for , for qualifications , they 're badgering me for , I , I , I just told them straight that I will do it for them because I , I wo n't get paid for it |
| 21 | But I warned my children completely off teaching so none of them even contemplated , well they did contemplate , two of them did but I just told them no , not to countenance it |
| 22 | I just told him I wished he 'd ring the bell next time . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I just told him I had n't won an Oscar for almost forty years and it was about time , that 's all . |
| 24 | He does a lot of business in Turin and I just told him I was going there . ’ |
| 25 | Or rather , I just told him it was n't on . |
| 26 | ‘ I just told him something Mrs Gotobed asked me to tell him . |
| 27 | I just told him that I badly needed five hundred pounds . " |
| 28 | and er I picked him , I picked him up in the road and you see I just told him , I says oh I says , you 're the very man I 'm , I 'm looking for . |
| 29 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
| 30 | ‘ I just told him to shut up and make do , ’ Cross told me . |