Example sentences of "tell [pron] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I swear it 's true , ’ I told them yet again . |
| 2 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 3 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 4 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 5 | Among Indians and Pakistanis , they told me rather severely , there is no class system as there is among English people . |
| 6 | His friend Patrick Newell told me rather more about his drinking exploits . |
| 7 | ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket . |
| 8 | Then I came to Newgate Prison , where a drunk old man showed me the place where prisoners were hanged , and told me excitedly that four men would die there tomorrow . |
| 9 | ‘ She agreed to marry me , but she told me straight away that she would n't be able to live in England all the time , and I told her I could n't live in L.A. |
| 10 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he told me shortly afterwards , trying to justify this shoddy media manipulation . |
| 11 | He told me however that two years before he had had his journal stolen and written it out again and that it was better second time around . |
| 12 | ‘ We can no longer trust these people ’ , many told me quite openly . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , he told me afterwards right , that he , the only reason he was angry was because Friday night reminded him of the time in his past or something ! |
| 14 | Time told me more immediately that it was five-thirty , the hour of return to the dining room , and I returned to find every single seat already taken , the passengers having learned fast . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh Lydia , ’ she said , ‘ you told me only yesterday that you did n't want any children . |
| 16 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 17 | As you say I just , she told me so so |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , yes , he told me all right … ’ |
| 19 | More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities . |
| 20 | He told himself he was behaving like a fool , that his suspicions were groundless , but he did n't believe what he told himself any more . |
| 21 | ‘ I told you long ago I was n't good enough for you . |
| 22 | And of course , as I told you long ago , you are beautiful , and I like the looks I get from other men when I 'm with a beautiful woman . ’ |
| 23 | I told you once before that I was selfish . |
| 24 | Nothing ! she told herself very firmly . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , the only pleasure , ’ she told him softly yet firmly . |
| 26 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 27 | On his way to his tent , he fell in with a captain who told him gloomily that three men had individually been sent in to find and blow up the magazine , and all had presumably died . |
| 28 | Fael-Inis told him very gently and very nicely , but you ca n't expect him to be other than quite dreadfully upset , can you ? |
| 29 | I told him more loudly this time . |
| 30 | He had asked her what was happening and she told him as truthfully as possible . |