Example sentences of "[modal v] tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You must tell them on the phone after telling them the price and what it 's all about you say , Right when I come round tomorr er whenever to er strike up the deal with you I want the contract signed I need a thirty five percent of the first year 's payment as a deposit cheque . |
| 2 | Indeed some of us think we now know what bankers in the republic felt like , if you stand up to make a speech the matter has moved on before you sit down again but I must tell you of the next major problem . |
| 3 | Before we start our session , I must tell you about an excellent course I attended recently . |
| 4 | I must tell you about the pet shop . ’ |
| 5 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 6 | There was the profile of the murderer and the profile of the victim and the one should tell you about the other . |
| 7 | ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ? |
| 8 | Nonetheless the characterization of the fabliau writer in the text is a worthwhile subject of study , for an assessment of the tone of the fabliau beyond anything it might tell us of the usual origins of such texts . |
| 9 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 10 | Sir John said placidly : ‘ If that is the case — that he knows something we do n't — I have little doubt that he 'll tell us in the fullness of time . ’ |
| 11 | I 'll tell you for a fact that Steven wo n't go for Ollie tonight , it 's Paul that 's gon na go for him . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll tell you on the way home . |
| 13 | are plenty of others they 'll tell you on the course . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 15 | I 'll tell you about the Mary Chain tomorrow . |
| 16 | Erm I 'll tell you about the er while I 'm doing some . |
| 17 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 18 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 19 | Three years later the same person said : ’ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you about the wedding |
| 21 | And erm if you wanted to hear about Chelmsford Cathedral when Estelle who was a humorous and eighty something but still on the ball she 'll tell you about the |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll tell you in a minute , ’ Jinny said shortly . |
| 23 | Right I 'll tell you in a minute . |
| 24 | I 'll tell you in a minute . |
| 25 | Well it 's not I 'll tell you in a moment . |
| 26 | I 'll tell you in a minute . |
| 27 | I du n no , I 'll tell you in a minute , we 'll have a count nearly dinner time |
| 28 | Du n no I 'll tell you in a moment |
| 29 | No that 's what I 'm say I 'll tell you in a minute when I 've finished this . |
| 30 | Oh I 'll tell you later why she 's not been sort of I 'll tell you in a bit . |