Example sentences of "[vb -s] tell [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's because somebody has told them that bald is ugly , bald is n't ugly , it 's . |
| 2 | ‘ He has told me all he had to tell . |
| 3 | Rex has told me all about the Tyrrell Society and their activities a dozen times if he 's told me once . |
| 4 | ‘ He has told me all your story , or as much as he knows . |
| 5 | He has told me that … ’ |
| 6 | The superintendent of police in my area has told me that , were we to round up about 150 people in the county of Cleveland , it would eradicate about 80 per cent . |
| 7 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 8 | ‘ He has told me some very important things . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Who has told you that ? ’ |
| 10 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 11 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 12 | Experience has told us that rural people often perceive their own problems differently from the accepted establishment viewpoint , and it is the development of the perception , whether we consider the opinions right or wrong , which we must cultivate if we are seriously looking for long-term solutions . |
| 13 | One — that ‘ pennant has told us more than perhaps one in ten thousand could have done in the time that he took . ’ |
| 14 | In your text book you 've got quite a lot of information in there about reinforcing , what we 're going to do in the practical session and it 's always a help I think when you have a lot of the , thrown at you to know that you can just put it up and there it is if you get a bit confusing or ca n't remember what 's what , so on page one six nine it starts telling you all about nursing and bandages and general hygiene which we 've already talked quite a lot about but it 's very useful for you to know , you can go there and look , and if you just go through the pages from there on one seventy , one seven one , one seven two , one seven three and then on one seven four it 's got the general rules for applying bandages apply bandages when the casualty is sitting or lying down , you always sit your casualty down and you work from the front of , I say why do you work from the front of the thing ? |
| 15 | she wants to tell us all about her wedding |
| 16 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 17 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 18 | When a woman looks in the mirror , she sees the totality of her being : because of the social brainwashing to which she has been subjected , the mirror seems to tell her more than it can tell a man . |
| 19 | The very fact that the gravitational attraction dominates tells us that matter on the large scale must be net electrically neutral to very high precision . |
| 20 | The round dance does not tell the recruits the direction to food , but it does tell them that food is nearby . |
| 21 | Bina 's told me all about you . ’ |
| 22 | She said to Bridget , ‘ Kevin 's told me all about his sister . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's told me all about you , but do n't count me as an enemy . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's told me all about that . |
| 25 | She 's told me all about the walls . |
| 26 | I mean he 's told me all about this stuff . |