Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She told me much the same as Miss Rose . |
| 2 | ’ The instincts of Robert Louis Stevenson — that sanguine consumptive with the heart of a child — told him much the same : |
| 3 | ‘ Now look , as my secretary has told you just the six times , I am totally booked for 1990 and I ca n't possibly … oh dear … |
| 4 | and when Siegfried swears to marry and save Odette after she has told him how the wicked Von Rothbart turned her into a Swan ( Swan Lake , Act 11 ) . |
| 5 | " I 'll do it again and leave you there unless you tell me where the seneschal is . " |
| 6 | ‘ Tell us why the impetuous command ? |
| 7 | Can anybody tell me why the black powder 's not powerful enough . |
| 8 | They have both just published a list of handy phrases including such things as ‘ My car has broken down ’ ; ‘ Can you tell me where the nearest garage is ? ’ and ‘ Where can I get help ? ’ |
| 9 | Your PP tells you where the first five are , always starting with the object This might be as follows : |
| 10 | But erm this might not believe me but I 'm gon na tell you just the same . |
| 11 | I 'll tell you where the next one is . |
| 12 | Yes , yes , yes and I would n't pay my rent because er ooh and I can tell you really the exact date when I er was pregnant because I know I quickened at the when it was first opened and er I was a waitress in the Room I think it was . |
| 13 | Of course I co could n't tell you now the different ways , they do what they like now . |
| 14 | The poser being , of course , that she could not tell him either the true reason she was here , or even who she really was . |
| 15 | ‘ Maybe you 'd better tell it just the same , ’ I said . |
| 16 | So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking . |
| 17 | ‘ Hi , can you tell us where the nearest gas station is ? ’ |
| 18 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 19 | Can you just tell us what you 've done to your entrance pricing for your various entertainment centres and also can you tell us why the Canadian profit 's almost doubled in the year ? |
| 20 | So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe . |
| 21 | When the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment replies to the debate , I hope that he will tell us how the British Government will apportion the 24 delegates from the United Kingdom who will represent us on that new body , the committee of regional and local authorities . |
| 22 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 23 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 24 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 25 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 26 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 27 | One was milking , and Peggy and I used very often be fetching the wood , we got tractor and trailer into the woods , and the old woodmen used to tell us where the dry wood was we could collect , take it down to the farm , circular saw in the shed , switch the electricity to go on . |