Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] the [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 2 | While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’ |
| 3 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 4 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 5 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 6 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 7 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 8 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 9 | John will have told you the way we operate er we we we er we |
| 10 | Rosemary had once told her the amount she was paying in rent . |
| 11 | But er , because we were , see we , I always had a uphill struggle for many years , so that it was n't er , tell you the truth I did n't erm devote much time towards the children , it is their own effort really that er they did very well . |
| 12 | I think you 'll find that I have , tell you the truth I think you 'll find that I have |
| 13 | When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go . |
| 14 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Just tell it the way it happened and try not to get sidetracked , ’ said Melissa , thinking that this could take a long time . |
| 16 | When you want to make a call , you just speak your code to wake up the phone , say ‘ Dial ’ , tell it the number you want , say ‘ Send ’ and you 're through in seconds . |
| 17 | And they also just tell it the flavour they fancy do n't they ? |
| 18 | It tells me the way you look you know . |
| 19 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 20 | Now do you tell me the story you had from Lady Usk , or do I go to the old witch myself ? ’ |
| 21 | I mean , why did n't she tell me the truth , I can understand you know , I could , you know , I could perha if she 'd just tell me the truth you know tell me why she 's u , what she 's up to and that . |
| 22 | And that tells you the number you 've caught ? |
| 23 | And then when someone tells you the answer you kick yourself . ’ |
| 24 | Did I tell you the name They 're place is called , oh there , there was er couple of weeks ago , they had a strip show |
| 25 | I ca n't tell you the dreck we 're going to have in it . |
| 26 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 27 | it does n't tell you the number it went to . |
| 28 | I c I do n't I do n't think I can tell you the lot it 's |
| 29 | Travel Section will tell you the flight he 's on . ’ |
| 30 | That 's right so you then go into the en suite room , well I can not tell you the trouble I 've had from the en suite ! |