Example sentences of "i tell you [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 2 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 3 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 5 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 6 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 7 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 8 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 9 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 10 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 11 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 12 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 13 | ‘ Would it make any difference , ’ Fen asked , ‘ if I told you those photographs are not of Petula ? ’ |
| 14 | Do you remember what I told you last night ? ’ |
| 15 | I told you last night , George , I ca n't do more than merely agree . |
| 16 | ‘ I told you last night when I brought the evenings over how it would be . |
| 17 | ‘ As I told you last night , she made all the arrangements herself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 19 | After what I told you last night , I — ’ |
| 20 | Now I think I told you last time that er the whole time me and Anne had been together , we 're not drinkers . |
| 21 | There 's a nice story about my , one of my favourite presidents , I told you last time , Theodore Roosevelt , Roosevelt got very frustrated with congress so he sent the American navy , he had no money , they would n't give him any money , so he sent the American navy to the Philippines and he said to congress if you want them back again you 'd better vote some more money cos they have n't got any fuel erm which is a fairly odd way of proceeding one might think . |
| 22 | ‘ I told you last week . ’ |
| 23 | I thought I told you last week ! |
| 24 | Lucy said with a hint of triumph , ‘ I told you another car would come along soon . ’ |
| 25 | Oh well , I told you another time then ! |
| 26 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 27 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 28 | I told you this kind of mingling always ends in tears . ’ |
| 29 | The child seemed so lost in thought she hardly looked where she was walking , and when they reached the gate of Matilda 's home , Miss Honey said , ‘ You had better forget everything I told you this afternoon . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Just pray by reciting what I told you this morning , ’ the mother persuaded her . |