Example sentences of "[vb infin] tell [pron] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't need to tell him this because I am clutching them upright in my hand . |
| 2 | And do n't you dare tell anybody this , not anybody , even Mary-Catherine , ’ commands Rainbow , ‘ but I kind of like having her around . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was out when you phoned — Edward did remember to tell me this time . ’ |
| 4 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 5 | ‘ It is just , ’ said Hope , looking at Mrs Crump as if she were a particularly testing landscape — perhaps a copse whose colours were for ever changing under sun and scudding clouds — ‘ it is just , ’ he said , ‘ and I am sure , certain , that someone must have told you this — ‘ |
| 6 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 7 | ‘ Rune , please , you do n't have to tell me this , ’ she pleaded , shocked by the emptiness in his eyes as they rested on her . |
| 8 | Believe me , Juliet , I did n't want to tell you this , but if I had n't I know Celia would , and she does n't know the true facts . ’ |
| 9 | Oh I did n't want to tell you this Phil , but |