Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well … maybe one , ’ and he goes on to tell me that in 1967 he once served the Singing Postman ( whose career was then in its ascendance , as a result of his seminal work ‘ Av yew got a light , boy ? ’ ) with a vodka and orange juice as he returned from a triumphant evening at the Ipswich Folk Club . |
| 2 | Sir Robert Mark goes on to tell us that after the prisoner 's appearance in court where , with his leg encased in plaster he was fined ‘ the customary ten shillings ’ , the violent navvy behaved like a perfect gent : Sir Robert Mark thus tries to squeeze out of this story a moral which points to the deteriorated relationship between the police and public . |
| 3 | And Luke goes on to tell us that Jesus drew special attention to those passages from the Old Testament which spoke of his death and resurrection , as a stimulus to repentance and the basis for forgiveness of sins . |
| 4 | When Polybius and Scipio found themselves alone in the neighbourhood of the Forum ( Polybius goes on to tell us ) Scipio , " blushing slightly , addressed him in a quiet and gentle way : " Why , Polybius , since there are two of us , do you constantly converse with my brother and address to him all the questions and explanations but ignore me ? " " ( 31.23.8–9 ) . |
| 5 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 6 | ( One of the teachers whom I interviewed , and who did not comment on this question , has since told me that she used it with a class . |
| 7 | Two hotspots had come loose , damaging pistons and the block , Good buy ( sic ) one Land Rover Another garage has since told us that they would never carry out a hotspot replacement on a diesel Land Rover engine and that a new cylinder head is the only solution . |
| 8 | Mansell saw that the young professional was lacking in belief and has constantly told him : ‘ Go out and win . ’ |
| 9 | What Odd-Knut has not told him is that the water under the ice is pressurized , and it wells up out of the hole . |
| 10 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman has not told me about it yet . |
| 11 | One thing is certain : if Abraham has not told her of the divine command , then even her worst fears will not allow her to guess what is afoot . |
| 12 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ Professor Vallar has not told us what he thinks . |
| 14 | There are some things that God has not told us , and therefore we do not know . |
| 15 | Mr Cross has not told us what he did with Hiatt 's stock of leg irons when their export was banned in 1984 , nor has he told us about Hiatt 's attempts to export ‘ extended ’ cuffs which the government has now included in the ban . |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield ( Mr. Blair ) has huffed and puffed , but he has not told us the Labour party 's position on a single proposal contained in the Green Paper . |
| 17 | This afternoon , he has treated the House to an extraordinary collection of half-truths and inaccuracies , but he has not told us the Labour party 's attitude to the proposals that I identified in the statement . |
| 18 | I also know that your informant there has not told you the truth . |
| 19 | I was so grateful that somebody has finally told me the reason why I was miscarrying . ’ |
| 20 | It has just told me that the trial has proved successful and that it will shortly make the address service available nationwide . |
| 21 | I 'm due to be married next Easter , and my fiancé has just told me he likes dressing up in women 's clothes . |
| 22 | A friend has just told me that you should not wear tampons overnight as it can lead to toxic shock syndrome . |
| 23 | From what the Nilsen girl has just told me Garau is our missing link , and with him in prison they 're in too tight a corner . |
| 24 | ‘ He has just told me that if I continue in my present path , remain the fine , upstanding , clean-living boy I so evidently am , I may one day hope — wait for it — to be elected to — Gracious heavens ! — the Cullbridge Athenaeum ! ’ |
| 25 | Knowing Martin what John has just told me about him if I did n't know him I do n't think it would me anything ! |
| 26 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 27 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 28 | We can hardly suppress what the police surgeon has just told us . |
| 29 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 30 | Then I need to think about all the strangeness that happened to you as a child ; my firstborn son has already told me something of your life , and of the questions you have for me . ’ |