Example sentences of "to tell me about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gilbert had served my Mass every morning and was now writing to tell me about the approaching Easter examinations and was hoping to do well . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you embarrassed to tell me about it ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own — um — illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about . |
| 4 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … you are facing up to yourself in a very moving and powerful way … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ : here , almost fully out in the open now , brazenly direct , we come to the gangrenous core of the rotten , shit-smeared campaign directed at me . |
| 6 | ‘ That trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 7 | As though the voice was directly in my ear again I surfaced out of the momentary haze to hear my agent saying ‘ that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The way you weave in your own background , your own illness , and that trouble or guilt Robert was trying to tell me about … ’ |
| 9 | Vienna Dear Fräulein Arandt , I am sorry you could not bring yourself to tell me about your parents . |
| 10 | Do you want to tell me about it ? |
| 11 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 12 | As I was typing these words , a young friend phoned to tell me about the wonderful summer holiday he had just had with his father . |
| 13 | Mr Vinct brought in some of the ‘ Daily Service ’ folk to see me and to tell me about their work . |
| 14 | Is there anything else you 'd like to tell me about yourself ? |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , no , she 's going to tell me about the time when she arrived at King ‘ s Cross station , pregnant , with a wage-packet in her pocket and no home . ’ |
| 16 | They might try to tell me about it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ A simple phone call to tell me about the problem would have saved me all this fuss and expense . ’ |
| 18 | Now can you put me on to someone qualified to tell me about Eve 's injuries ? ’ |
| 19 | That is why I meet with Jean-Paul to tell me about Philippe . ’ |
| 20 | DO YOU WANT TO TELL ME ABOUT IT ? |
| 21 | She sent Gwenellen to sit with him , because she wanted to tell me about a telephone call from General Francis . |
| 22 | She quickly finished all she had to tell me about my errands . |
| 23 | Incidentally , you 've kind of forgotten to tell me about your visit to sonar . ’ |
| 24 | He did not explain what he meant , but went on rather quickly to tell me about the appointment , and for a while we talked about Cambridge , and places and people that we both knew well . |
| 25 | But the mystif lovey , I need you to tell me about the mystif . |
| 26 | I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … . |
| 27 | When I was in service in Norfolk with Mister Johnny 's parents , they used to tell me about their rich cousins in Wales and the screaming skull and the curse on the house . |
| 28 | Would you care to tell me about your sudden cold , Patrick ? |
| 29 | Yeah , I 'd like you to tell me about erm , what the house was that you left before you came to Harlow and why you came to Harlow ? |
| 30 | You dare to tell me about my child ? ’ |