Example sentences of "tell [pron] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's the war , ’ she added without guile , and because the chief had taken a liking to the woman with the thick Liverpool accent who met her gaze without flinching , she told them to cut along to the galley ; if they were lucky they might just make standeasy . |
| 2 | When we arrived at her house , Eva put her hand on my shoulder and told me to go upstairs to Charlie . |
| 3 | A poignant reflection on the situation occurs in the entries for Thursday and Friday , October 10th and 11th Thursday : ‘ Had a terrible row today ; Elfed told me to go back to Pontrhydyfen . |
| 4 | The doctors told me to go back to Cambridge and carry on with the research I had just started in general relativity and cosmology . |
| 5 | He did understand , and told me to stay close to him and he would take me to the YWCA . |
| 6 | I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . " |
| 7 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 8 | They called back Washbrook , now 41 , and told him to get up to Headingley with his bat and pads . |
| 9 | Presumbly Kev had been on the hotline to Wilko at half time and told him to get back to 4–4-2 asap ! |
| 10 | Anyway it was streaming with water so er I told him to get down to doctors , he asked if , that 's why I said oh Stephen 's been back . |
| 11 | ‘ So for no apparent reason , I ring the cops and tell them to get over to Fernley Shopping Centre because something bad has happened . |
| 12 | Your instincts tell you to hurry back to it and clearly you are right ! ’ |
| 13 | Tell him to come back to him or |
| 14 | Tell her to get down to Marsh Street and join the rest of the whores . |
| 15 | In she comes for her pension , takes it without a by-your-leave then calls me a bloody wog and tells me to go home to where I come from . ’ |
| 16 | I hope she do n't tell me to go back to my old room , cos I really like sleeping with Marie . |
| 17 | " Did Comrade Andrew tell you to go down to the picket ? |
| 18 | I think it was the other way round , He was telling me to get back to p H and stop writing fiction . |
| 19 | But the other echo which really gripped me was his reference to some of the Imperial flights down the Gulf that were not as straightforward and as simple as they are today , I speak now of when I was awakened from my afternoon siesta by someone from the guardroom telling me to get down to flights as quickly as possible and have my overnight gear with me . |
| 20 | But the room was suddenly bathed in light and Nancy Leadbetter , who had pressed all the switches by the door , was among them and telling them to go out to the barbecue because that was where the fun was about to begin . |
| 21 | He kept telling him to go back to being a serious actor . |
| 22 | He wanted to tell her to come back to bed , to put the child down now he was quiet . |