Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] tell [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must just tell you this , Laura did make me laugh , cos she said she stood up and she said , I 'm gon na give my talk about cats so I said , fine . |
| 2 | It was a mirthless grimace , but , ‘ Oh , yes , I 'll probably tell her all about it . |
| 3 | If you phone in t erm the Talking Yellow Pages and say I need a conference centre in Derbyshire , they 'll probably tell you that one . |
| 4 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 5 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 6 | I 'm really , really bored so I just thought seeing as I 'm on my own I 'd just tell you some slang erm for teenage languages . |
| 7 | But she could hardly tell him that ! |
| 8 | Erm that means we have a stall on Tuesday the twenty fourth , Wednesday we 've got our meeting here with the speaker about , were having Mike speaking on Czechoslovakian now and he 'll be telling us his experiences over there and his had a long association with Czechoslovakia and Harlow and Thursday were having a market stall with a jazz band and Norman could probably tell us more about that . |
| 9 | Tilly realised now that she could never tell her these things , and yet , she knew that the gentle Elizabeth had a right to know . |
| 10 | I would just tell him this that er there is a problem here which my Right Honourable Friend is addressing and depending on the outcome of those consultations and discussions , will obviously depend the action which we will have to take . |
| 11 | Oh they would just tell you some extraordinary story they 'd seen They 'd heard Seen a ghost or heard a ghost or a something . |
| 12 | Then at the bottom of the page erm , he says I am in the history department and he says I shall probably tell you several more times and indeed he does in the play . |
| 13 | Tell me everything , ’ she saw his eyes soften and knew that he would surely tell her all there was to know . |