Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] tell me that " in BNC.
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1 | A hypothetical imperative tells me that , as a rational being , I must do such and such if I desire to obtain a certain upshot , because it is the essential means to that upshot , and he who wills the end must will the means . |
2 | Cos you ca n't get , an old bloke told me that . |
3 | Liberal chums tell me that old , white , military men top the bill . |
4 | A little bird tells me that Scottish & Newcastle 's private jet has been spotted in the neighbourhood of Pilsen . |
5 | ‘ My most basic instincts tell me that , but my reason and my God tell me differently . |
6 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
7 | But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes . |
8 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |