Example sentences of "[adv] tell i [det] " in BNC.

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31 Now tell me another ,
32 Do you know a , a hairdresser years ago told me that .
33 Many of the old people who did this job sixty and seventy years ago told me some of their experiences .
34 He immediately told me that to do a smoothly coned skirt would be vastly expensive in terms of bending and shaping wood , and equally expensive to do as the multi-part mould which he reckoned was necessary because of the protruding hemispheres .
35 And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that .
36 ‘ Why did you come here to tell me this ? ’
37 ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain .
38 If you know who the contact was , then tell me that first . ’
39 I mean , my knowledge of the organisations that are there tells me that .
40 Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment .
41 She pours withering scorn upon such ‘ painted poupées ’ as Joan Collins and Liz Taylor for the hours they devote to their images , as well as the men they choose as partners , but one look at the deep lines of bitterness etched into the faces of those women who renounce loving relationships in favour of cats , gardens or anything else tells me all I need to know .
42 ‘ You never told me that , Marie .
43 It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that .
44 ‘ You never told me that !
45 You never told me that ! ’
46 ‘ No , she never told me that .
47 ‘ you never told me this , ’ said Bill plaintively .
48 He never told me this .
49 He never told me those things .
50 He never told me any details . ’
51 ‘ You 've never told me all this ! ’
52 ‘ You 've never told me any of this , ’ Anne began .
53 ‘ Why have you never told me this before ? ’
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