Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mother of six told me that she moved happily from motherhood to grandmotherhood with no time between for mourning the empty nest . |
| 2 | A girl of ten told me that children in her school were punished if they spoke in their own language . |
| 3 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 4 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 5 | Hierarchy in Asian joint families depends on age and sex but the Sikh women I spoke to all told me that in their families the disciplinarians and rulers were always men . |
| 6 | However , Major John Wiseman , M.C. , at first told me categorically ( in a private communication ) that my husband had not been in ‘ A ’ Squadron , but later kindly wrote to me to correct this statement . |