Example sentences of "they tell [pron] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’ |
| 2 | They told me not to bother to go in until the contractions became regular . |
| 3 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 4 | They told me not to bother doing the premises up since it was only for such a short time . |
| 5 | They told him repeatedly to leave his wife . |
| 6 | They told him not to act in a hurry , but they would like to see her . |
| 7 | Vincent , baffled and angered by his parents ' pessimism , lost his temper when they told him not to write to his uncle and aunt in Amsterdam . |
| 8 | They told him bluntly to go if he must but that they preferred more contemporary methods and would stay in the cabin preparing their equipment . |
| 9 | Well , they told us not to wet it . |
| 10 | They told us not to wet it . |
| 11 | They told us how to live our lives , occupied us until we lived our life their way . |
| 12 | Well , hippies — they told us never to trust them , did n't they ? |
| 13 | I 'd love to go in again , but they tell me not to go , but to remember how it was . |
| 14 | The flags they tell you where to go , you see ? |
| 15 | They tell you how to complete the payslips and how to pay . |
| 16 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |