Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody has told me before to pack up , why are you bringing it up today ? ’ |
| 2 | If it had been any other soldier , he would have told him sternly to pull himself together and be a man . |
| 3 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 4 | ‘ My dear child , how many times can I have told you never to split a pair ! |
| 5 | When she asked him if they had really been as beautiful as angels , he had told her abruptly to look at the portraits , just as now , sensing that she had been hounded out of the house , he had given her something to do , a task to occupy her hands and head . |