Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] tell [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was er er there was something that I got told many years ago that I |
| 2 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 3 | I tried telling some of the teachers that . |
| 4 | And and the write up in one of the papers well I was well I 'd to tell that guy if he 's watching I can ya nip ! |
| 5 | Just after I 'd finished at college , I went along to someone 's party and I remember telling this girl who I was chatting up that I played bass . |
| 6 | ‘ Finally I decided to tell all . ’ |
| 7 | It was then that I decided to tell each woman in my own time , taking each one in turn — I could n't tell them all at once . |
| 8 | I do tell that to the press . |
| 9 | It was like a little explosion because it was n't just a question of telling one other person ; I had to tell my parents and I had to tell all my schoolfriends and make sure that my world existed and to a great extent it did . |
| 10 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 11 | So I had told each of my friends apart from one . |
| 12 | ‘ You must not do it , Jamie , we 'll be in trouble with Colonel James , I 've told all you boys a thousand times . ’ |
| 13 | got it somewhere in this house but I 've told some chap , a bit of a Welsh there er I said , Now but it was Welsh there . . . |
| 14 | see what happened is , I came over and he says , you know I 've told this lady that you saw the man standing beside her and she went she sort of , she described him , apparently he was very tall which |
| 15 | I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on |
| 16 | Now I 've told this tale before and some bright spark said Aye but th do you know there are five in the British Isles ? |
| 17 | Yes , thank you Chair , erm A lot of this debate circles around what we do about community care , I have to tell this council as far as I 'm concerned , community care 's dead in the water . |
| 18 | I have told this story in the hope that it may be of some help to other adoptive parents , and out of the profound belief that love is the most important thing in the world . |
| 19 | I have told this story umpteen times before , but in this context it bears repeating . |
| 20 | Would she want to tell those people outside anything different about the situation in South Africa now ? |
| 21 | You want to tell this dumb-fuck donkey son of a Shiite whore that Daod just left the country right under his nose ? ’ |
| 22 | She has told that tale all round Glasgow ; you may have noticed that no company calls . |
| 23 | She 'd told another lie . |
| 24 | You come all the way to see our fine city with its many points of historical and civic interest , also many quaint customs , and you wake up dead in some back alley or as it might be floating down the Ankh , how are you going to tell all your friends what a great time you 're having ? |
| 25 | Two more to use on areas , now would you like to tell some of this to Barbara ? |
| 26 | Aye , you try telling that to these people round here . |
| 27 | It 's a bit of a bummer really but you know when you 've got it on and you 're talking , cos I was telling jokes and you get carried away and you start thinking wah and you start telling all the jokes and everything there 's a , a lot of swearing on this tape , a lot of swearing , a lot of swearing . |
| 28 | Even the most brilliant pair of trainers in the entire universe wo n't get you out of trouble quickly enough if you start telling any of these gags . |
| 29 | If you had told any of Britain 's hard-pressed post-war chancellors that they could expand the economy vigorously and turn round the external accounts by 6.5 per cent of GDP without adverse consequences , would they not have jumped at the chance ? |
| 30 | inch by two and you had to tell these dockers what size it was and they 'd take it out of that particular stack . |