Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The caller told them to say the man 's full name out loud . |
| 2 | ‘ He told them to leave the house immediately and it would appear that they did not take him seriously but laughed when he said this . |
| 3 | If Nigel was there she gave them blankets and told them to use the sofa . |
| 4 | Neighbours told them to ring the hospital . |
| 5 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |
| 6 | Once the commotion had died down , he told them to break the time pencils and get to work . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 8 | Tiriac is still miffed that the ATP final did not come to Stuttgart : ‘ The ATP told me to join the auction , but I am too good to have to do that . ’ |
| 9 | On one sunny afternoon , when running and feeding a platen-machine ( by hand ) and sweating profusely owing to the heat , the rattle of the front-door bell told me to attend the counter . |
| 10 | She told me to lift the lid , and there inside were packed hundreds of balls of different coloured wool . |
| 11 | He told me to leave the track . |
| 12 | Emil told me to collect the champagne glasses , pour the water and put a pot of breadsticks on each table . |
| 13 | ‘ Bring nothing with you , ’ she had advised and , laughing uproariously , told me to keep the taxi window up . |
| 14 | Joseph told me to fetch the doctor , so I ran to the village , although I knew it was too late . |
| 15 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 16 | My brain told me to pull the trigger but my finger would n't respond . |
| 17 | First of all , I think Stapleton told you to write the letter to Sir Charles and to ask him for help . |
| 18 | and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away . |
| 19 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 20 | This was taken direct to Queen Yolande who had summoned Alexander and told him to take the King 's favourite horse , a white mare stabled at Kinghorn , down to the ferry . |
| 21 | COUNCIL chiefs wrote to Andrew Jones to say they were sorry his father had died … then told him to quit the family home . |
| 22 | You know when she told him to close the cupboard ? |
| 23 | Guppy later told him to close the account because of worries about possible criminal action . |
| 24 | Nigger pulled out a wad of notes large enough to choke a horse , gave Knocker a pound note , and told him to keep the change . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him to come the day before the operation , ’ she says ‘ I thought I 'd still be looking fairly reasonable then . ’ |
| 26 | But the pope , who two years earlier had confirmed the forged privilege guaranteeing the existence of the monastic community at Canterbury , warily told him to have the matter of the primacy discussed in a provincial council in the presence of a papal legate . |
| 27 | Now , as he drank Robert 's champagne , and saw her , silent beside him , her head set downwards , a columbine on its stem , and as modestly inaccessible , Andrew knew that good manners and good sense told him to redress the misfortune of that last experience . |
| 28 | All the boy 's instincts told him to throw the money back at the policeman , their natural enemy , but his little brothers ' faces changed his mind . |
| 29 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 30 | Yeah I just told her to put the top on the pen when she was having a drink , because she had the pen in her hand |