Example sentences of "[noun] tell i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Your eyes and your lips tell me one thing ; your mind , your voice , your hands protest … |
| 4 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 5 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 6 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 7 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 8 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 9 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |
| 10 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 11 | Joey tells me last night he said oh by the way he said you do n't wan na hire your car up er the Berry 's . |
| 12 | Cheek to tell me good luck . |
| 13 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 14 | She heard Guido say , ‘ I remember Filippo telling me that story . |
| 15 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 16 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 17 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 18 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Jaguar people told me some valves were already bent through test-driving . ’ |
| 20 | I exclaimed : ‘ Your Excellency tells me one thing today and another tomorrow ! |
| 21 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
| 22 | Bailey told me this morning . |
| 23 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 24 | A spokesman told me this week : ‘ It 's a top-shelf title . |
| 25 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 26 | ‘ Humber told me Red Leland thinks he 'll make it . ’ |
| 27 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
| 28 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 29 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 30 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |