Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 2 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 3 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 4 | He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership . |
| 5 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 6 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 7 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 8 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was out when you phoned — Edward did remember to tell me this time . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm going to tell her this minute what I 've decided . |
| 11 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 12 | ‘ You 're going to tell me these nomes fly on them , right ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm going to tell you another story , Ingrid . ’ |
| 14 | Paradise Lost , one might say , exists to tell us that death is a just punishment , and anyway ( see Paradise Regained ) not final . |
| 15 | Then last night the police called to tell me that Mum , Dad , Pet and Wee Charlie were missing , but that you were safe . |
| 16 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 17 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 18 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 19 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 20 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll have to tell them some time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I know it 's difficult to talk , but I do n't have to tell you that time is short . |
| 23 | — He must 'ave told you all sorts of lies . |
| 24 | The very fact that the gravitational attraction dominates tells us that matter on the large scale must be net electrically neutral to very high precision . |
| 25 | We really ought to have noted the various quantities remaining , when Dr Burney offered to tell us this morning . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 27 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 28 | No , but Mr did , did tell him this morning . |
| 29 | ‘ I ne'er liked telling it that way , like a fairy tale ; but he 's allus been that strong-willed … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |