Example sentences of "[verb] tell me [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sorry I was out when you phoned — Edward did remember to tell me this time . ’ |
| 4 | Then last night the police called to tell me that Mum , Dad , Pet and Wee Charlie were missing , but that you were safe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 8 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 9 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 10 | ‘ From what you 've told me this constable knows as much as Boz about the man who attacked Anna , but he 's made no arrest yet . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Ace blackmailed you into becoming his lover ? ’ |
| 12 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |