Example sentences of "tell i [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Could you tell me please : 1 ) Is the 4203 direct or indirect injection ? 2 ) Where do I connect brake servo at engine end ? 3 ) Is my 2.6 radiator big enough for the diesel ? 4 ) Will brakes or suspension need uprating ? 5 ) How many filters needed on the fuel line ? |
2 | Could you tell me please the nature of your relationship ? ’ |
3 | Er can you tell me please er how I can avoid a particular charge . |
4 | ‘ You would n't tell me otherwise , would you ? ’ |
5 | Oh wait , let's see what you got ta tell me today . |
6 | ‘ He 's not a flash Harry or a cheat and if he does n't think another year is on the cards he will tell me straight . ’ |
7 | Why did n't you tell me straight away ? |
8 | Do n't you tell me again you ai n't got a fella 'cause I sha n't believe you . ’ |
9 | ‘ And I suppose you can tell me again what happened next ? ’ |
10 | WOULD N'T YOU RATHER TELL ME AGAIN ? |
11 | ‘ You must tell me again , ’ the scientist murmured . |
12 | it is , I said I 've given you a lot of time in the holidays and what have you come in and now you 're making a big song and dance about an hour and she said oh I 'm sorry I did n't mean to speak to you like that , but she did , she was just plain rude and really quite nasty , eh she should of yeah , and she should of told me that I was n't , becomes taking a lunch break and then she said well you could of taken half an hour , I said you did n't tell me well I said to her Matt rung up this morning and said to you , surveyor 's coming up to , at four o'clock , he wants both of us to be there so we know which way the windows will be and all the rest of it , just bear in mind , now I said to her I know it 's short notice but can I please go at four o'clock , she said yeah it is short notice but yeah no problem come in at eight o'clock tomorrow morning as a joke and then she totally changed her attitude when she came back from her thing mm yeah oh yeah that was nice of her well I said to her , I said to her oh I said to her look she would take |
13 | More to give herself time to think than because she wished to know , she said to Constance , ‘ Perhaps you had better tell me right from the beginning , Constance . ’ |
14 | I think you 'd better tell me exactly what 's been going on here . ’ |
15 | I said to her , ‘ Look I 'm going out in a couple of weeks , you must tell me exactly what happened so I can tell the papers about it . ’ |
16 | ‘ You 'd better tell me exactly what happened . ’ |
17 | Could you please tell me exactly what smetana is and how do you use it in cooking ? |
18 | She would n't tell me exactly what he 'd said . |
19 | Now you take a bearing on me , should tell me exactly what you 're doing . |
20 | But I mean , you know obviously Ken 's not gon na tell me exactly what . |
21 | Then when I proposed the next day , and made you tell me exactly how far you 'd gone with other men — ’ |
22 | SALESPERSON : Could you tell me exactly what it is that you do n't like the look of ? |
23 | I wish you will tell me instead who is that lady over there . ’ |
24 | ‘ During Nick Faldo 's Open in 1990 , we mowed it three times a day , ’ Woods would tell me later , touring the course in his Land Rover . |
25 | In Japan too , they 'll tell me later , they almost lost touch with sensible layman reality , screaming when drinks were wrong or cars were late . |
26 | ‘ But perhaps you 'd rather tell me later — in my suite . |
27 | But if the breadhead was to walk away and tell me later that he found only one packet , what would I say ? |
28 | ‘ No , you ca n't tell me yet , ’ McDunn says quietly and reasonably . |
29 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me sooner ? ’ |
30 | I might as well ask , because I suppose you 'll tell me anyway . ’ |