Example sentences of "[is] tell [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I bet yer that Polly 's told 'er ter goo , ’ said another .
2 And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are .
3 All I want you to do now is tell me where they are . ’
4 But all I can do at this moment in time is tell you where I stand today .
5 We have 100 — yes , one bloody hundred — Orb stickers to dish out like there 's no tomorrow and all you have to do to win one is tell us WHY you deserve one .
6 I said then all you have to do is tell her how much she hurt you the last time
7 And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since .
8 Sipping his first beer of the day , Tim Roth is telling me how , for a few hours , he was rich .
9 Are the people too blind to see that the Dublin government is telling us where we can and where we can not parade , where we can and where we can not fly the Ulster flag and that a foreign flag can fly on our soil ?
10 As you start to think about the things that make you anxious you realize that the passage is telling you not to be anxious but to pray with thanksgiving !
11 I say Mum calls me Anthony when she 's telling me off .
12 I do n't know , if you 're like me but , I must confess , I I get er , I would n't say pleasure , but I rather like those incidents where he tells the disciples off , not because he 's telling them off , but because I can fit in wi with what they 've been up to !
13 And th , so i in Matthew , it 's in Matthew chapter eight , the incident , th the the , of the er the the storm , and , listen to what Jesus says when he , when he 's , when he 's telling them off .
14 So that literally means if it 's telling you right , you 're ten to one your ratio of calls , and you earn from every appointment two hundred pounds you 've only got to make twenty calls and you 'll earn four hundred pounds .
15 But he 's telling you just in case .
16 This , this , you know , is saying something very , very simple , it 's telling you straight away , okay it 's , it is , it is quite nice to have the quote in there again as I say , if somebody , if somebody is trying to do a little advance story , to say , you could all , you could from there you could actually write something which , without having to go back and make a phone call .
17 perhaps he 's telling you off
18 It 's telling you how to get from your set , which is the first set we 're talking about , which is your name , to the second set which is which box you go to , in the , in the dole .
19 It 's telling us how many sets of different things we 've got .
20 He 's telling us how he spent last night here , on the car-park , in his van . ’
21 If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency .
22 I think the advice I would give any mother of an anorexic is to tell them how awful they look !
23 Does he agree that one of the most useful ways in which we can give them know-how is to tell them how we managed , in the light of the Maastricht agreement , to reject the principle of monetary union ?
24 What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely .
25 As you have decided to appeal against this decision by making a ‘ reference ’ to an Appeal Committee which will look at your case independently , the purpose of this leaflet is to tell you how to make your reference , the things you will have to do , and the people you should expect to come across .
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