Example sentences of "they tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | To approach them tell them how they feel about things rather than having to ring you up and make an appointment if only once a year or once every six months use a group . |
| 2 | Actually to hear some of them tell it , sex without stockings is like an egg without salt . |
| 3 | So a lot of , a lot of them tell like fairy tales , a lot of people tell fairy tales for young , at young children , it 's all aimed at young children when they 're not old enough to understand what 's truth and what is n't they 're not old , they 're not in their own understanding yet when they 're children so they sort of , not in their conscious sense anyway |
| 4 | I said well what the hell 's she doing Arthur , if she do n't want them tell her to come , send them in here I said and give them to the kids . |
| 5 | They are both interesting books because they tell interesting stories , and are arranged to dramatic effect in interesting ways . |
| 6 | They tell y' stories about the past , y' know , the war , or when they were fightin' for food an' clothin' an houses . |
| 7 | Their eyes light up as they tell y' , because there was some meanin' to it . |
| 8 | If they tell you that you 're not immune , you should be vaccinated soon after your baby is born . |
| 9 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |
| 10 | They tell each other stories ( Sprugg is a poet , like Rodolfo ) ; they flirt harmlessly , get quietly drunk , but they do n't swear and they do n't you-know-what — it 's a family show , in fact , though any child would faint with boredom . |
| 11 | Such declarations are of little intrinsic importance but they tell us something of how a politician sees the world and his own place in it . |
| 12 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 13 | They tell you how to complete the payslips and how to pay . |
| 14 | And they tell us sea fishing is primitive in its thinking . |
| 15 | The flags they tell you where to go , you see ? |
| 16 | Ask them if they are working-class or middle-class , and they tell you ‘ This is our fate , sister , to work , to slave , in Pakistan too some of us had to do the hard , hard work on the fields . |
| 17 | ‘ So they tell me . |
| 18 | Often bad things happen after — you know , like you 're taken away to school , or they tell you someone died or summat like that . |
| 19 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 20 | They tell it in a way that makes it make sense . |
| 21 | Mr George Ryde , TGWU national secretary for civil aviation , said : ‘ Our members are involved in almost every aspect of airport work , and they tell a different story to the public relations myth that nothing is spared in providing passengers with maximum security . |
| 22 | It 's when they tell you more and more of a story — that 's when you disbelieve . |
| 23 | They tell of women murdered by Iraqi soldiers , because husbands or sons had joined the rebellion ; of heavy shelling of residential areas ; of summary executions of anybody suspected of aiding the rebels ; of bodies left lying in the streets . |
| 24 | They tell such horror stories as GE putting up sales teams from competing suppliers in the same hotel and then moving from room to room asking each supplier to think about reducing its bid for the contract . |
| 25 | They tell me that your proposals tomorrow will show the UK coming good … is that right ? ’ |
| 26 | ft is as they tell us of |
| 27 | In contrast , dating techniques do not require this comparative material ; they tell us immediately whether or not the object is genuine — at least , they do in theory ! |
| 28 | They tell of how God killed in a night all the firstborn sons of the Egyptians , and spared those of his own people . |
| 29 | They tell of how the Israelites were caught between the Reed Sea and the pursuing Egyptian army , and how God drove the Egyptians into the sea to drown , while leading his people across to safety . |
| 30 | ‘ They tell me he 's a little more relaxed on this one than his earlier ones , ’ says Kyle MacLachlan , Agent Cooper in David Lynch 's TV-phenomenon Twin Peaks and now a dead ringer for keyboard player Ray Manzarek . |