Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 2 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 3 | British Rail tell us the eighteen twenty four , Manchester to Paddington train — that 's the train that 's due in at Oxford at eighteen twenty four- is fifteen minutes late this evening , and all trains from Paddington to Oxford are about twenty minutes late . |
| 4 | They could be paraphrased by : ( 63 – ) If anyone had dared tell me the like two months ago , I would have scouted him as mad or drunk . |
| 5 | 'I 'd tell you the whole bitter story , but you do n't have the time to listen and I do n't have the patience to explain . |
| 6 | Can the Secretary of State tell us the real social cost to our country of the devastation of our manufacturing industry and our economy ? |
| 7 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 8 | I 've got to take a second to tell you the whole so-called Iran scandal , I think hard to think of as a scandal . |
| 9 | By that time Barbara knew Leo very well , and she guessed how much it had cost him to tell her the whole unsavoury story . |
| 10 | Not within fifteen minutes you 'll to but at the end of this session you will be able to process how to tell us the five main points five main benefits of a certain policy . |