Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 2 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 3 | Lucy said with a hint of triumph , ‘ I told you another car would come along soon . ’ |
| 4 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 5 | A small Portuguese man with ringworm scars on his scalp was holding up a huge pair of trousers in despair ; I went over , took his trousers and shirt , told him that mine would fit him perfectly , and changed into his . |
| 6 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 7 | I know I 've told you this place might be run by these Chinese Triads , but I want everyone t'remember we 're dealin' mainly with kids here . |
| 8 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 9 | representative , and , an independent superintendent , have just inspected the ship and tell me that loading can not start until the crew have dried out the holds — that will delay us a while . |
| 10 | A : Tell her all babies will be automatically aborted unless good reason can he shown why they should be allowed to proceed to term . |
| 11 | The señora sighs relief when I tell her more soup will suffice . |
| 12 | There is a wide range of vitamins and minerals in bananas , and dieticians tell us that man can live on bananas and water alone , though the monotony may send yu over the edge ! |
| 13 | And tell us such shou 'd ne'er be wore , |
| 14 | Do n't tell me any secrets will you ? |
| 15 | I 'll tell you one thing-I can get rid of Mr Hyde any time I want . |
| 16 | You can tell him that joke ca n't ya ? |
| 17 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 18 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 19 | Right , economic theory tells us that production will continue in , in the short run providing average variable costs are covered . |
| 20 | Unless we make it trivially true that gold is malleable , by explicitly including malleability in our idea of it , we can perceive no connection between the ideas of gold and malleability ; our observation and experiment do not tell us that gold must be malleable ; we have no knowledge that it is . |
| 21 | You got environmentalists telling you this land should be left to nature , too poor for sodbusting [ ploughing ] . |
| 22 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm to tell you that dinner will be at eight , ’ Wendy passed the message cheerily . |
| 24 | She wanted to reach out and touch him , to tell him that life could be wonderful . |
| 25 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |