Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 2 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 3 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 4 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 5 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 6 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 7 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 8 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 9 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 10 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 11 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 12 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 13 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 15 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 16 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 17 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 18 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 19 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 20 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 21 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 22 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 23 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 24 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 25 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 26 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 27 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 28 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 29 | Charlotte told me those things , much later . |
| 30 | He never told me those things . |