Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] and tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma nods , looks pleadingly and tells me in her love-voice : ‘ She 's only a tiny baby , Jimbo . |
| 2 | But if the breadhead was to walk away and tell me later that he found only one packet , what would I say ? |
| 3 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 4 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 5 | ‘ Come and sit here and tell me about yourself . |
| 6 | ‘ You sit there and tell me that you can see men or ghosts or apparitions that no one else can see ; you deny all evidence that the man or ghost or apparition is actually elsewhere and therefore can not be here ; and I am prejudiced ? |
| 7 | ‘ You sit there and tell me what you want done , I 'm not exactly helpless you know . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And you 'll write often and tell me about him ? ’ |
| 9 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 10 | now start again and tell me Kate |
| 11 | You come here and tell me my Sam 's gone , drowned - " she broke off and gasped , stifling a sob " - you come here with — with your propositions and your — your - " |
| 12 | The policeman knows OK and tells me , but he looks at me funny all the time . |