Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too . |
| 5 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 6 | Take five minutes and tell me what it is you want me to do for Lynx . |
| 7 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I will be holding surgeries at Netherton Park Community Centre so people can air their views and tell me if there is a problem , ’ he said . |
| 9 | On the first day Odd-Knut gave me a tobacco tin of worms and told me to keep them warm , and they have travelled the Arctic inside my second layer of clothing ever since , even sharing my sleeping bag at night-time . |
| 10 | Now from the , from the evidence that we 've all looked at over the l past few weeks and tell me if I 'm boring you |
| 11 | Can you advise me about the pros and cons and tell me the best way to retain their copper finish ? |
| 12 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 13 | ‘ He gave me a couple of pills the size of tennis balls and told me to get my head down . |
| 14 | I went to my doctor who gave me some pain-killers and told me to rest . |
| 15 | ‘ Stop answering questions with questions and tell me what 's going on ! |
| 16 | She liked to plan everything — meals , shopping expeditions — in painstaking detail ; she was — again like Sophie — an extremely efficient housekeeper , always turning mattresses and telling me I ought to starch table napkins and put fresh flowers in the hall every day . |
| 17 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 18 | And when , to show what a good little wife I had become — Nonni thought that my aunts did not ‘ appreciate ’ me , meaning that they did not go in for endearments or tell me how pretty I looked — she pointed out , one Sunday lunchtime , how well I had starched the table napkins , Aunt Lilian said , ‘ But why ? |
| 19 | ‘ When my grandparents came on holiday with us , he was the one who took us round castles and museums and told me stories about being in the Scots Guards , ’ said Marjory , who inherited most of his books when he died two years ago . |
| 20 | Can you give me their names and tell me where I might find them ? ’ |
| 21 | She burst into tears and told me that Charlie had been killed on the Western Front . |
| 22 | Four or five bars and tell me what you notice about bar three . |
| 23 | ’ ‘ It 's funny to think that just this afternoon I had the idea of getting poor old Eddy to come over to the Gates and tell me something about himself … |
| 24 | ‘ He actually told me I was on the streets and told me Brian owed all this money . |
| 25 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 26 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 27 | Sister Margaret is always nagging me about my earrings and telling me to take them off , but I 'm not going to . |