Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 2 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 3 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 4 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 5 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 6 | One , living in Newcastle on Tyne 's Salvation Army Men 's palace , told me that homeless men lost basic citizen 's rights because " laws apply to them but never for them " . |
| 7 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 8 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 9 | She told me that last week ! |
| 10 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |
| 11 | You told me all that stuff about your wife being unfaithful . |
| 12 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 13 | As we walked back , Silver told me many interesting things about the ships that we passed . |
| 14 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 15 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 16 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 17 | They give you a Walkman , they give you tape , they give you batteries , I told you all that Jane |
| 18 | ‘ She told you this last week ? ’ |
| 19 | And they did n't work so many hours , I worked er I do n't know whether I told you this last time but er I worked , my normal week was sixty six hours , sixty six hours for five shilling . |
| 20 | Leila told her this particular film had once won an award . |
| 21 | Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created . |
| 22 | When we asked her more about her playmate , she told us that Dohti lives in a gypsy caravan , had black hair and eyes and was 11 years old . |
| 23 | Erm and Mike told us that new reports commi commissioned by the City Council and the new owners claimed there is no danger . |
| 24 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 25 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 26 | He told us some harrowing stories of life on a bomber aerodrome which had ‘ main force ’ squadrons , always carrying heavy loads of high explosives and incendiaries , and impressed on us how lucky we were to be on a Pathfinder station . |
| 27 | The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens . |
| 28 | After assuring me the her comm was entirely secure — no one tampers with Frejjis machinery — she had told me that odd things were happening on Uulaa . |
| 29 | If you 'd told me all those years ago , I would have grown up with the idea of another mother , perhaps miles away , perhaps just around the corner . |
| 30 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |