Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] tell [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( One story , which entered his official state Department biography , has it that he told several students that his own rise to the position of ambassador showed what great opportunities there were for the young in Iran . |
| 2 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 3 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 4 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 5 | am I changed or not , if I tell this tale ? |
| 6 | Yeah , cos I told that was one , I said that 's , that 's the one I , I over slowed on my test . |
| 7 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 8 | ‘ And you told all this to Mrs … the woman in London ? ’ |
| 9 | And he said , here 's a cab , and you tell this cab driver where you want to go . |
| 10 | Erm , good point , she did er , give them letters and she told other people to contribute , she erm , she at one stage ask everybody what they , what the record was . |
| 11 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 12 | ‘ Every time the ad comes on TV my mum has to tape it and she tells all the neighbours . ’ |
| 13 | It makes so much difference if you tell each other what you hope for , rather than expecting your partner to know , or to assume that your partner wants and expects the same things . |
| 14 | On the school run one day the vicar 's wife stopped the car and said : ‘ Diana Spencer , if you tell one more lie like that I am going to make you walk home . ’ |
| 15 | I go there , and I sit in her room , and we are very quiet , I do n't fucking camp around , I never smoke , and we tell one another the truth . |
| 16 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 17 | And he told top scorer Don Goodman : ‘ Get us more goals ! ’ |
| 18 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |
| 19 | Gorbachev ordered a blockade on Lithuania ; and he told angry workers in Sverdlovsk not to worry about food . |
| 20 | And he goes off to school , and he tells all his mates . |
| 21 | And these are your function keys and what they do so if you ever need to know what to do , F one F one , and it tells all you need to know . |
| 22 | If he stayed silent , Miss High and Mighty Jarman would make his life hell until he told all he knew . |
| 23 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 24 | But she told one VIP she was ‘ looking forward tremendously ’ to Saturday 's ceremony at Balmoral . |
| 25 | But she told Best magazine : ‘ It 's difficult . |
| 26 | But he told another women , barren after five years of marriage , that she was a witch . |
| 27 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 28 | They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories , and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways . |
| 29 | He was murdered one day after he told Lebanese , on the eve of their 46th independence anniversary , that their divided country was close to peace . |
| 30 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |