Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] tell me [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's obviously a hell of a technique to master and somebody told me that , just to make things worse , you grinned when you did it ! |
2 | And nobody told me that . |
3 | I said ‘ Come on ’ , I said , ‘ Let's go in the sitting room and sit down , and you tell me all about it ’ . |
4 | ‘ The business I 've just bought is on the rocks , and you tell me that 's lucky ? ’ |
5 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
6 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
7 | ‘ — 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 — ’ |
8 | 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 |
9 | 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 . |
10 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
11 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
12 | ‘ Maureen does n't know I 'm here , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she told me all about you . |
13 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |