Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] tell [pers pn] the " in BNC.

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1 So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know .
2 And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’
3 And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in .
4 And I told him the mud in the high street was an absolute disgrace .
5 and I told him the ones to see .
6 Check all the spellings , and I told you the horror story about the gentleman whose name was wrongly spelt .
7 I give you the input and you tell me the answer .
8 As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times .
9 for Christmas , and it was delicious the way her mother made it so she started it with me writing it down , see , and she told me the ingredients and then she said you brews the ginger I thought
10 I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that .
11 ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day .
12 When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday .
13 Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working .
14 If it 's s something like that and they tell me the amount of furniture and if two thirds of the van will be filled with big stuff , and then they tell me there 'll be half a dozen boxes , I assume there 'll be at least four times that number of boxes , and if it 's still going to go on , we 'll do it .
15 I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year .
16 And he goes , he goes , he goes well , you know , and he tells her the story .
17 And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi .
18 And it tells you the normal plug rating for a particular appliance .
19 But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know .
20 People say they become imperceptive ; they spend hours looking for the car keys that were on the table in front of them all the time ; they become preoccupied and inattentive to what other people are saying to them ( ‘ But I told you the Smiths were coming over yesterday .
21 One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was
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