Example sentences of "i [vb past] tell [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to tell her that , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Meg said : ‘ I tried to tell myself that . |
| 3 | she never , never could , and I said what I tried to tell you all |
| 4 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 5 | Hilda , he wrote , when I ventured to tell her all her troubles were her own fault : You are so cold . |
| 6 | Only Frankie and Liza were in so I decided to tell them both what had happened . |
| 7 | I had told myself that heat was cleansing , because I had grown fearful of water . |
| 8 | I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 : |
| 9 | I wanted to tell her this was n't quite true , that I had had no choice , but her grey , tired look stopped me : it would hurt her too much , I thought , to feel I had not trusted her with the truth in the beginning . |