Example sentences of "[vb mod] tell [pers pn] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must tell you about the pet shop . ’ |
| 2 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 3 | There was the profile of the murderer and the profile of the victim and the one should tell you about the other . |
| 4 | Now , she thought dully , he 'll tell me about the woman he 's crazy for . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you about the Mary Chain tomorrow . |
| 7 | Erm I 'll tell you about the er while I 'm doing some . |
| 8 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 9 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 10 | Three years later the same person said : ’ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you about the wedding |
| 12 | And erm if you wanted to hear about Chelmsford Cathedral when Estelle who was a humorous and eighty something but still on the ball she 'll tell you about the |
| 13 | I 'd tell them about the plants . |
| 14 | ‘ Your need 's greater than mine , ’ and then he 'd tell me about the new necklace he 'd bought for his missus . |
| 15 | She knew she should n't speak to a strange man , but as her Brownie Guider was under a tree not many yards away she thought she could tell him about the litter that had caused the Pack to lose the use of Ferngrove Park . |
| 16 | Philip Winterbottom , Assistant Manager , Archives would like to hear from anyone who worked at Drummonds prior to 1960 and who could tell him about the branch as it was and of any changes or innovations which occurred . |
| 17 | I could tell you about the money he has lent to people and never got back . |
| 18 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |
| 19 | He used to tell me about the odd trip to Eastern Europe on business . |
| 20 | Uncle used to tell me about the time when the primitive Methodists and the Wesley Methodists were joining up . |
| 21 | She used to tell us about the you see they were n't allowed to make er malt and that . |
| 22 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 23 | And I shall tell him about the journalism , too , for I want to go on writing , and I want nothing false and wrong to lie between us . |
| 24 | And his network will tell him about the consultant who 's got to the top by achieving top-class results . |
| 25 | It will tell us about the individuals ' ability to make and maintain new relationships . |
| 26 | Thus a detailed knowledge of the material conditions in which communities have lived will tell us about the constraints under which they have laboured ; and this in turn will help us to understand some of their properties . |
| 27 | My monthly articles will include techniques which should help you to use and get the best from your machine , but first I will tell you about the back-up services available to Singer knitters . |
| 28 | A book covering the area you 're interested in will tell you about the terrain and give you an idea as to whether or not your walking companions will be physically able to tackle the route(s) . |
| 29 | Any computer shop will tell you about the various comms packages available for your machine , though bear in mind that some can be quite difficult to set up ( and that most American software can not handle the Prestel standards ) . |
| 30 | It is likely that , whichever it is , it will tell you about the buyers of your product and its competitors only in rather broad terms — those of the basic demographics : age , sex , social grade , area , presence of children . |