Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The card told me the rest . |
| 2 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 3 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 4 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 5 | Lancashire County Council tell me the skip will be provided from Tuesday 30th March to Tuesday 6th April . |
| 6 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 7 | ‘ For God 's sake tell me the truth . |
| 8 | So there 's my grandma telling me the difference between a girl and a boy . |
| 9 | ‘ For de Raimes , for believing that bitch at Gloucester even for a minute , for losing my damnable temper and not giving you a chance to tell me the truth . ’ |
| 10 | If Somerset should opt once more for a batsman , my instinct tells me the favourite would be Richie Richardson . |
| 11 | An old woman telling me the story of her life shat herself halfway through the Second World War . |
| 12 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 14 | A typed version tells me the poem was written in December 1957 . |
| 15 | Why was n't the computer telling me the answer ? |
| 16 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 17 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 18 | ( The Operations Information Officer tells me the Adjutant is really going to Dhekelia to water-ski-but then Operations Information is seldom accurate ! ) |
| 19 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 20 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 21 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 22 | They will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the name of any one of the leading actors in the original 1939 film . |
| 23 | We have ten volumes of those adventures to give away in our latest competition and they will go to the senders of the first postcards out of the hat telling me the surname of the puppet-master producer behind the so-called ‘ Supermarionation ’ series . |