Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 2 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 3 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 4 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |
| 5 | Cheek to tell me good luck . |
| 6 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 7 | She heard Guido say , ‘ I remember Filippo telling me that story . |
| 8 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 9 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 10 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 11 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 12 | I exclaimed : ‘ Your Excellency tells me one thing today and another tomorrow ! |
| 13 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
| 14 | A spokesman told me this week : ‘ It 's a top-shelf title . |
| 15 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
| 16 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 17 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 18 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 19 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 20 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 21 | ‘ My son tells me one article appeared and he counted thirty-seven inaccuracies in it . |