Example sentences of "[vb past] tell i [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You promised to tell me all about it . |
| 2 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 3 | I wonder if — I wish you 'd told me that , Alan . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have been useful if you 'd told me all this at the beginning . ’ |
| 5 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 6 | I only wish you 'd told me this earlier . |
| 7 | If you 'd told me this in the make-up room when you came to have your hair cut , you 'd have saved yourself a needless journey . |
| 8 | She said , ‘ I wish he 'd told me this himself . ’ |
| 9 | He knew I 'd be interested in the reward money before he started telling me all the details , otherwise he 'd have kept most of it to himself . |
| 10 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 11 | ‘ He did tell me that . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , you did tell me that . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 14 | Yes they did tell me that your Lordship . |
| 15 | Oh you did tell me that . |
| 16 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 17 | He did tell me some other things about himself . |
| 18 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 19 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 20 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 21 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 22 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 23 | I now decided it must be my messing about with the eggs that was causing the problem , even though John had told me this was the method he was using . |
| 24 | I remembered when my own wife , Maria , had told me this , and how this house had been full of the laughter of little voices , and the noise of running feet . |
| 25 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 26 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |
| 27 | He refused to tell me any more details . ’ |