Example sentences of "tell [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until you 're in a situation where you 've got your own lap-top computer , and you can tell them instantly . |
| 2 | It was important to me that I did tell them individually because on their own I felt I could get their attention and having to explain why I felt like this , but more than that , I wanted them to fully understand that all of a sudden I was n't a lesbian whose name was Carla — I was still Carla , except that I just had different feelings . |
| 3 | I 'll tell them later — when we know . ’ |
| 4 | I , I tell them that erm Pat offered , I 'll just tell them straight to their face |
| 5 | What will you tell them today ? ’ |
| 6 | I could tell them exactly how we 'd do it . |
| 7 | He could tell them little about the enemy , save that his party , coming here , had crossed the tracks of a great host in the Kilsyth area of Strathkelvin , by the horse-droppings at least a day old . |
| 8 | Those of the Indus and Ganges dolphins even lack lenses , so that their eyes can tell them little more than the difference between light and darkness , between day and night . |
| 9 | Can you tell them apart ? |
| 10 | Cars , cameras , motorbikes and hi-fis may be getting to the stage where only the keenest enthusiast can tell them apart , but tractors remain mercifully different from each other . |
| 11 | It was the first pro bout between twins and the only way the 400 spectators could tell them apart was by the colour of their shorts . |
| 12 | I can never tell them apart . ’ |
| 13 | If you can not tell them apart , would two fish of the same sex fight ? |
| 14 | Sir Walter Scott called barefoot and ragged wild mountain Scots lads ‘ gillie wetfoots ’ , saying he could not tell them apart from the fairies who ‘ beat the bushes ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ At the moment we can only tell them apart by taking a sneaky look at the name-tags in their jumpers . |
| 16 | N : I had a dream , it was a great dream where everyone was one colour and all the same height and nobody could tell them apart |
| 17 | The calls of killer whales vary from group to group and these dialects are so distinct that people can tell them apart . |
| 18 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 19 | These three sentences will almost certainly find some robust difference beyond the initial three words that will reliably tell them apart . ’ |
| 20 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 21 | So you gon na tell them tomorrow . |
| 22 | They choose to tax as much as they want to and they choose to spend as much as they want to and no one can tell them otherwise , there is no central control over that . |
| 23 | ‘ It will tell them enough to alert them if they 're working for the British Government . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I had never heard of this before , and you can imagine the complaints from customers , we could only tell them once the police had told us . |
| 25 | Oh , but you are , but you must tell them afterwards . |
| 26 | He could remember what a flurry Martha Pritchett used to get into when Lady Debrace stopped in for a cup of tea , and how afterwards she would tell them proudly how her ladyship had sat down and chatted as if she were no grander than Nurse Wilks ! |
| 27 | I shall take your Christmas pudding with me , and the box of dates too , and I shall tell them all how you came this morning with presents and decorations and then found the mistletoe for me ! |
| 28 | I mean if you 're saying that by not communicating everybody 's performance gets better , let's tell them all not to talk to each-other |
| 29 | I would tell them all where to go . |
| 30 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |