Example sentences of "[noun prp] tell me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 2 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 3 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 4 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 6 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 7 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 8 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 9 | Silver Reed tell me the double knit ribber does have a yarn holder and this holds the yarns you are not using at the end of the needle bed , making changing by hand easier . |
| 10 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 11 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 12 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 13 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 14 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 15 | Dianne told me the score so anyway you 're like a friend can go with you . |
| 16 | While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’ |
| 17 | Jenny tells me the rest of the story the next day . |
| 18 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 19 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 20 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 21 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 22 | Deftly turning the conversation , she said , ‘ Betty tells me the village people are very intrigued by the two veterinary practices here , and Joanna would n't be too pleased if she knew that they are firmly under the impression that you only do small animals and Robert and Ian are large-animal vets . ’ |