Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my dealers has told you about these … shares . |
| 2 | ‘ A curious time you have picked to tell us of this , Michael Riven , ’ Murtach said , smiling wryly . |
| 3 | I 'm glad you called , " Lorne went on weirdly , " because I want to tell you about another new idea I 've gotten . |
| 4 | So if you find a good Irish joke and want to tell it about another local or ethnic group you could do so . |
| 5 | It means , it 's the new system where as you 're driving along , whatever you 're listening to it automatically interrupts to tell you of any urgent road delays . |
| 6 | I tried to tell them at first , but now I just smile and say nuffin' , like Brer Rabbit . ’ |
| 7 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 8 | Please do keep telling us of any complaints or suggestions you have either about the Journal or about the way the Society is being run . |
| 9 | away till Thursday well we wo n't see her Wednesday and I 've got to tell her about that Mrs what 's her name that 's |
| 10 | Got to tell her about that have n't they Mick ? |
| 11 | As Wayne returned , she quickly took her hand away ; she was n't going to tell him about this , not if she could help it . |
| 12 | I was going to tell her about proper beef stock , but the girl has to walk before she can run . |
| 13 | When a colleague discovered that I was coming here to do this er she saw it as laughable and she also saw it as something that I would prefer to keep quiet from my colleagues and tried a bit of moral blackmail on me as well to say I 'm going to tell them about that if you do n't them about this sort of thing . |
| 14 | I was just going to tell them about all the things that were on my mind , about my dad and about Jesus and about aliens taking over the … |
| 15 | If you 're going to tell me about that bloody dream again — . ’ |
| 16 | I am going to tell you of two glimpses that have retained their clarity for me over the years while important and famous things have faded . |
| 17 | No not , not till the Manageress , I was just going to tell you about that . |
| 18 | I was going to tell you about last night . |
| 19 | But what I was going to tell you about this loan and I was there on this Friday morning when we were drawing our money , and the men were bringing their their s life savings to lend to the union . |
| 20 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 21 | Erm I mean tell me in more depth how it works |
| 22 | We had to like tell her about five times so they knew it was n't our room as we like took this guy in it was like books , everything was , there was so much crap on the floor , we had to get through to get to the radiator so that our next door neighbour could try and like stop it from leaking . |
| 23 | ‘ You know what you can do with your sphyg , ’ said Wexford , proceeding to tell him in lurid detail . |
| 24 | ‘ Why would you have told me in any case ? |
| 25 | I I must have told you before that what we got er we used to turn and bundle two thousand four hundred , I told you that did n't I ? |
| 26 | Then all of a sudden he left and went up to San Carlos and joined the reservation police as if to become Apache again ( Here they called him Tres Hombres , which I will try to tell you about later . ) |
| 27 | ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman who Eddie had begun seeing and she said that the marriage had gone through a bad patch and divorce proceedings had been started , ’ Miss Coltman said . |
| 28 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . |
| 29 | Miss Coltman said : ‘ Paula started to tell me about another woman that Eddie was seeing and at one point divorce proceedings had been started . ’ |
| 30 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |