Example sentences of "be to tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing will be to tell me where you are and Daddy will come and fetch you , or Mike will . |
| 2 | Another way would be to tell me what the angle is from |
| 3 | If you were to tell me that there are people , like the man upstairs to whom you now threaten to turn yourself in , who actually do have a strong sense of themselves , I would have to tell you that they are only impersonating people with a strong sense of themselves — to which you could correctly reply that since there is no way of proving whether I 'm right or not , this is a circular argument from which there is no escape . |
| 4 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 5 | She was to tell me what she was doing and to stop as soon as she wanted to . |
| 6 | ‘ I rather thought , sir , that your purpose in coming down here was to tell me what to do . ’ |