Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 2 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 3 | Actually it 's all very much easier to explain in pictures than to tell you how it works , so let's go step by step , shall we ? |
| 4 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 5 | A FRIEND of mine , an artist , used surlily to describe those books that tell you that , unskilled as you are , you too can write bestsellers , cook like Escoffier and play the piano like Rubenstein if you carry out the simple instructions , as ‘ any idiot can draw books ’ . |
| 6 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 7 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 8 | Hugo first telephoned the de Chavigny offices and told them to contact Edouard immediately ; then , for the first time in many years , he prayed . |
| 9 | She closed her eyes and told him he was wonderful . |
| 10 | Sighing wearily , Beth opened her eyes and told her , ‘ You 're right , Peggy . |
| 11 | They gave Chesarynth two painkillers and told her she was lucky . |
| 12 | I just talked to the lads and told them what would happen . ’ |
| 13 | Soon after the embassy , he assembled the lads and told them : anyone who laid a finger on the girl would be keelhauled . |
| 14 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 15 | All I can do is transform what I see into words and tell you what 's going on . ’ |
| 16 | Involving the fire , the exit th there , we actually talked about er , issuing a memo to all the branches and telling them there ought not be electrical equipment on overnight . |
| 17 | We have a lot of privacies , and a lot of things until we change them , and you know why we changed it , because you went out and saw your clients and told them products and they reported you , and you came back and said but what about this , what about this ? |
| 18 | She caught up with Pascoe by the lifts and told him she would like to talk . |
| 19 | Brandishing a knife taken from the kitchen , the gang took all three to separate bedrooms and told them they would be stabbed if they did not reveal where their valuables were . |
| 20 | In addition to the firearms that tell us about and the door opener , was any other equipment issued to the officers ? |
| 21 | What are the signs that tell us whether or not we are making genuine progress in a particular area of study ? |
| 22 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 23 | We are constantly seeing TV programmes and newspaper/magazine articles that tell us how bad some things are for us . |
| 24 | Stephanie , who on screen proved she was Queen Bitch , turned on Caulfield , sharpened her acting talons and told him , ‘ Not only am I going to prove in front of the camera that I am your mother , but I 'm also the person who will knock you into shape . ’ |
| 25 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 26 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 27 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |
| 28 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 29 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 30 | And he would go away , he would n't say , Come on we 'll go down to the cleaners and tell them , he would go away himself you see . |