Example sentences of "[adv] tell i that " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you already told me that , ’ said Twoflower .
2 Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it .
3 Just tell me that ? ’
4 When Andrée had recovered she said , ‘ And yet you will not tell me that simple thing ? ’
5 ‘ But why did you not tell me that at once ? ’
6 She did not tell me that .
7 ‘ Dorothy , I do n't know quite how to put this , but is there something you 're not telling me that might help me understand this a bit better .
8 ‘ Did Plummer send you here just to tell me that ? ’
9 ‘ I 'm sure you did n't ring me just to tell me that , ’ she replied , in no mood for light-hearted flirtation , try to pin on a brave face though she might .
10 He was n't badly hurt but people have since told me that shock sometimes starts the onset of diabetes .
11 Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 .
12 Another journalist , the political columnist Alexander Cockburn , once told me that , on balance , he was relived not to have reported on Vietnam because he had observed that those who had , found it difficult to leave the subject alone .
13 ‘ I do n't think you 've ever told me that ! ’ said Donald , sounding peeved to have elicited an original statement from Henry while on licensed premises .
14 ‘ It 's my home , they 've always told me that .
15 He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it .
16 Do n't ever tell me that Love 's dimpled pander does n't earn his pesetas .
17 You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates .
18 He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there .
19 Do you know a , a hairdresser years ago told me that .
20 He immediately told me that to do a smoothly coned skirt would be vastly expensive in terms of bending and shaping wood , and equally expensive to do as the multi-part mould which he reckoned was necessary because of the protruding hemispheres .
21 Do n't tell me that little toy cost you less than a hundred and twenty , Cullam . ’
22 ‘ No , he did n't tell me that . ’
23 And do n't , ’ she said with sudden vehemence , ‘ do n't tell me that suffering is part of the Almighty package . ’
24 ‘ I was hoping you would n't tell me that . ’
25 You ca n't tell me that was accidental .
26 You did n't tell me that , did you , Maria ?
27 ‘ I 'm so sorry — he did n't tell me that .
28 Madness runs in her family , but they did n't tell me that .
29 ‘ But you did n't tell me that ! ’
30 ( Years later , I discovered that those flats were actually owned by the College , but they did n't tell me that . )
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