Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not for the likes of us to try and tell you your job , after all , you are the boss and it is your decision as to who gets in the squad , but when rubbish like Terry becomes a regular , well … it reflects on the whole team and your lousy judgement in particular . |
| 2 | The family had you see the family had to come and tell him where the grave was . |
| 3 | They 'd all come straight to Ingham 's after the Requiem Mass and they were waiting now for John Burns , the undertaker , to come and tell them when the grave was ready at the cemetery and the men would walk the coffin there . |
| 4 | When the men of the World Council of Churches in Geneva heard Arthur was at Caux they phoned him to come and tell them the truth about Rhodesia . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , whoever told you it is n't allowed , tell them to come and tell me , ’ I said , and I took the child outside . |
| 6 | Which is why I made up my mind to come and tell you first thing that I could n't think of anyone I 'd rather Naylor married . ’ |
| 7 | Do not bother to write and tell me that in their culture etc , as that is really not good enough . |
| 8 | You were going to write and tell me where she is . |
| 9 | I need to write and tell them it 's not the Glasgow Herald any more . |
| 10 | After reading the May issue of The Art Newspaper , I feel compelled to write and tell you what an extremely useful publication this has turned out to be . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , I 'll get the car out and drive you to work and tell you as we go . ’ |
| 12 | I had to write an' tell 'im it was killin' his da' . ’ |
| 13 | She loosened up after she 'd had a bit to drink and told me about it . |
| 14 | He rose to go and told me to take care . |
| 15 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 16 | Mary it 's none of your business to go and tell him ! |
| 17 | I did n't have to go and tell him . |
| 18 | After a silence he 'd risen greyly to his feet to leave and told me to look after myself . |
| 19 | We just asked them to leave and told them we would explain later . |
| 20 | We stayed for a while to chat and told him how great we thought New Zealand was . |
| 21 | They started to fight about who had the most crayons and mother tried to intervene and tell them both off for making a noise . |
| 22 | Georgiades had a man on that route , too , but there was only one of him and when he saw the man coming he did not risk leaving his post to run and tell them but watched the man until he was safely inside the shop . |
| 23 | However — if I must leave a message I 'd like Miss Lucy Telford to phone and tell me what I 'm waiting to hear . |
| 24 | Just when we were expecting him home — to phone and tell her like that . |
| 25 | The only way you can stop getting paranoid about it is to get someone else to watch and tell you if you are doing anything wrong . |
| 26 | Eventually I felt calm enough to respond and tell her a little of my hurt . |
| 27 | There is a distinction in principle between a book which sets out original ideas , and justifies them ( a MONOGRAPH ) , and a book whose primary function is to distil and tell you what other people 's ideas are ( a TEXTBOOK ) . |
| 28 | Uncle Geordie used to laugh and tell me not to be a fearedy-gowk when I said Skipper was trying to bite me . |
| 29 | Matt wanted to know how her parents had fared over the last few years , and as we were about to leave the table he asked her to stay and tell him about them . |
| 30 | At the end of the Mass there is a touching prayer as men go out into the world linking the sacrament of the one bread which binds all men in God with the bread and ale of human meeting : In the bidding prayers where the priest directs the people to pray and tells them what to pray for , probably after the offering and the anthem , again attention is directed to all estates of society , living and dead , including religious , both monastic and secular . |