Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are to tell them nothing . |
| 2 | She was longing to tell them everything , but even five-year-olds gossip and it was vital , at this stage , that no one should know . |
| 3 | She is asked to tell them everything : the whole truth . |
| 4 | Indeed , only when the first wail of an approaching siren drifted up from below did Ursula remark : ‘ I suppose we 'll have to tell them everything . ’ |
| 5 | But I wanted to tell them everything . |
| 6 | ’ They say to you that the way to become a really good actor is to tell them everything about yourself , tell them all your fears and insecurities . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't , ’ Maggie replied , and went on to tell them her tale . |
| 8 | They all crowded close around her , and Anabelle , in quite a loud whisper , began to tell them her secret plan . |
| 9 | She was so badly injured that she was able only to tell them her name . |
| 10 | It was obvious to everyone from the moment they sat down that Zach was bursting to tell them something . |
| 11 | Have to tell them something , you see . |
| 12 | He was trying to tell them something . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't want to be a dictator over the whole thing , to tell them what to do . |
| 14 | What right have men to tell them what to do ? ’ |
| 15 | Many creatures , too , use visible light to tell them what is happening in the world immediately around them . |
| 16 | But the jungle lodges should do more to make contact with the local communities , to tell them what they are doing . |
| 17 | Other may sit there stubbornly waiting for you to tell them what they are meant to do whilst making it abundantly clear that the session is hardly welcome , indeed is being conducted almost under duress . |
| 18 | Self-discipline begins to take over so that children come more and more to behave reasonably , even when there is no one present to tell them what to do . |
| 19 | He was so forceful and dogmatic in his ideas that the Girls would be embarrassed at band calls when he interrupted acts , totally unknown to him , to tell them what he thought was wrong . |
| 20 | When he arrived home his parents had returned home and he was able to tell them what had happened ; their first reaction was one of anger at his disregard of their wishes but they were interested in his story . |
| 21 | Rather , what I hope for is a linguistic universe in which people will accept that they must consider the alternatives and then make their own choices , instead of relying so heavily on authority — even some hypothetical feminist authority — to tell them what is acceptable or ‘ correct ’ linguistic usage . |
| 22 | The best way to handle people is to tell them what they want to hear . |
| 23 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 24 | I was n't too shy to leap into bed with them , but I was too shy to tell them what I needed . ’ |
| 25 | I would not know how to tell them what to do , because their disabilities might be completely different from mine , their attitudes different , their ideas different , their hopes different . |
| 26 | Mother also sent a message to Jim 's school , to tell them what had happened . |
| 27 | One of the experiences of the programme is that it is important to involve social security officers early on , to tell them what 's going to happen , not to wait until people are in the community and then make the claim . |
| 28 | Maybe to tell them what liquidated damages |
| 29 | Well if you 're going to ask some poor devil to clean er a carriage out is n't it fair to tell them what it is you mean by clean ? |
| 30 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |