Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] tell me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , so she told me that |
| 2 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 3 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 4 | I said ‘ Come on ’ , I said , ‘ Let's go in the sitting room and sit down , and you tell me all about it ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The business I 've just bought is on the rocks , and you tell me that 's lucky ? ’ |
| 6 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 7 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 8 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 9 | So we start negative two , minus two , and I know what add means cos you told me last time . |
| 10 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 11 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 12 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 13 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 14 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
| 15 | ‘ Maureen does n't know I 'm here , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she told me all about you . |
| 16 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 17 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 18 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 19 | I waited patiently while he told me forty different ways to get there . |
| 20 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 21 | The second time , I mean , when you told me all about everything . ’ |
| 22 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 23 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 24 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 25 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 26 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |