Example sentences of "[adv] tell [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I think you had better tell me the whole story . |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 'd better tell me the whole story , Charles . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I think I 'd better tell you the whole story right from the beginning . ’ |
| 4 | When speaking to Marco in the prison for instance , he tells him he is bound to be deported , and that there is no hope for him ; Alfieri would realise it was hard for Marco to take , but respected him enough to tell him the absolute truth . |
| 5 | ‘ Our manager Nigel Best told me a Celtic representative from Scotland would be watching me . |
| 6 | So when asked why I had not told her the whole story , I replied , ‘ Because you never asked me . ’ |
| 7 | she had guessed Taczek had not told her the whole truth of his relationship with Mills but now had confirmation . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He looked across at me with watery , beseeching eyes as if he had just told me the entire , intolerable story of his life . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 12 | Just tell us the long-running TV series in which Backdraft director Ron Howard starred as Richie Cunningham . |
| 13 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 14 | Aye you see I can not tell you the right story , but when Mary Queen of Scots |
| 15 | I d I know that , there 's that phrase you know , we will never see his like again , I think we probably will , but it will be a very long time , and I can not tell you the infinite feeling of sadness erm , that I felt when I heard of his passing . |
| 16 | This does not tell us a great deal . |
| 17 | Moreover , stateless societies are either small tribal societies , or small communities within a larger political system , and their political arrangements do not tell us a great deal that is relevant to the great majority of human societies . |
| 18 | and I probably wo n't stop I 'll just tell you a different way . |
| 19 | Oh I could tell you a lot about this but I 'll I 'll just tell you a little bit that 's all . |
| 20 | As Morgan ( 1985 , pp. 169–70 ) points out in his review of studies in family history , history never just tells us a single story — there are many possible stories , depending upon what questions we ask . |
| 21 | Dr Neil — he 's Stair Cochrane 's younger brother — he works for the poor in an East End practice — ’ Her voice almost broke when she said his name , and her mama knew immediately that Sally-Anne was not telling them the whole truth about her East End adventures . |
| 22 | " And how can I be sure you are not telling me a little mentirola ? |
| 23 | Erm you 're fairly Are you 're fairly confident that they 're not telling us a porky about this ? |
| 24 | It was my own fault , I suppose , for not telling you the whole truth , but I did it for your sake , because I loved you so much ! ’ |
| 25 | But if anyone said that Christianity was n't going to cost you anything , they were not telling you the full story . |
| 26 | After all , Jesus was n't just telling them a nice story . |
| 27 | ‘ Just telling him a little story . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Barratt was just telling us the other night at the Goodys ' , ’ says Prue , as she pours coffee in the living-room , ‘ about how he had lunch with God the other day . ’ |
| 29 | Please always tell me the scientific name of your fish if possible , even if it means phoning up your dealer to ask what he has just sold you . |
| 30 | Among humans , even when we do not understand the words , the manner of expression still tells us a great deal of what is being communicated , especially at a basic level of feeling , emotion and facts of physical life . |