Example sentences of "you [vb base] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you tend to tell them first ? |
| 2 | However , if you deprive other people of your feelings of warmth and appreciation you deny telling them what you enjoy about being with them . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You mean to tell me , Peter , that you 've always been aware of this spate of ‘ reprisals ’ on officials of the fallen Government ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You — you mean to tell me that you left the area to come to our aid ? ’ |
| 6 | ( On first hearing of Aviv 's findings , Plaskett reportedly exclaimed : ‘ You mean to tell me the CIA has been using Pan Am planes to run drugs ? |
| 7 | ‘ You mean to tell me that 's what started this whole fiasco off ? |
| 8 | ‘ You mean to tell me we 're sharing a room ? ’ |
| 9 | He confirmed this impression by asking in tones rank with disbelief , ‘ You mean to tell me you thought you were pursuing a poor man ? ’ |
| 10 | We ca n't even , you mean to tell me there 's all these bombs keep going off wi it did n't , if it had happened in France police carry bloody guns |
| 11 | and you mean to tell me with all that equipment the machine that they 've got at the college , you could n't get it done there ? |
| 12 | Well you want to tell him that |
| 13 | Is there anything you want to tell me ? ’ she asked me . |
| 14 | ‘ And you want to tell me about them ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I think you have something you want to tell me ’ — that 's what their technique was . |
| 16 | So er well If you want to tell me , if I was starting as a riveter boy , right , if I was wanting to start as a riveter boy , what would I do ? |
| 17 | ‘ And I 'll tell you which station , unless you want to tell me . ’ |
| 18 | He , I says to her , I says to him I said look , I said you want to tell her when |
| 19 | Ooh you want to tell her when he goes when he leaves me in here with this door unlocked ! |
| 20 | When you first have eye to eye contact everything is new , splendid , you want to do the very best for each other , you want to look your best , you want to tell them all the good things and eventually you get married . |
| 21 | But you talk to people with the fervour of what you want to tell them . |
| 22 | You want to tell them , bring the tourist around show them the spot |
| 23 | SRD 14 Anything else you want to tell us ? |
| 24 | Well Anna-Marie is there something you want to tell us ? |
| 25 | I have to know what you propose to tell them . ’ |
| 26 | It seems to me that you propose to tell us , on the basis of your researches , the right way to create super children , and then the right way to bring them up . |
| 27 | I think you 're honest it 's the people respect you more if you say I 'm sorry , I do n't know the answer , I 'll find out for you and then you say tell you what John , can you write that up on that issues form pad or you know another bit of flipchart paper , we 'll come back to that . |
| 28 | Erm and proceeding to business you know tell me why did you come to Friends Provident in the first place ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | You know if you can get him to say , you know tell him to forget the rai the rainforest for a , you know , for a while and think about his own family . |