Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] tell [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I do tell that to the press . |
| 3 | ‘ You must not do it , Jamie , we 'll be in trouble with Colonel James , I 've told all you boys a thousand times . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . . . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have told this story umpteen times before , but in this context it bears repeating . |
| 11 | You want to tell this dumb-fuck donkey son of a Shiite whore that Daod just left the country right under his nose ? ’ |
| 12 | Aye , you try telling that to these people round here . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I talk to my friends and they say , you know , ‘ this is what you need to tell these folks ’ , so I say , ‘ OK ’ . |
| 16 | We get told that , we used to get told like , use six thousand or seven thousand or numbers like that . |
| 17 | ‘ Even though we try to tell this to our customers , some of them will pay £3,300 for a Broaster and then buy cheap oil . |