Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 3 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 4 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm to be on the committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows , ’ she told him one day . |
| 6 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 7 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 8 | Even told him one day , ‘ Let's go travelling , escape from our lush paradise |
| 9 | ‘ You 're going to have a little baby brother , Martha , ’ her mother told her one day . |
| 10 | ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face . |
| 11 | The latest threat to children recently is not just wait till your dad gets home , but , my daughter told her four week old baby , if you 're not good I 'll put you on the fax and send you through to daddy . |
| 12 | I 'd have told you one day . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sorry about your father , ’ Ross had told her one morning before leaving for work . |
| 14 | It was the happening that we Hastings children had dreaded ever since our Junior School Headmaster , who also taught Physics , had told us one day in class . |
| 15 | You 've told us one point seven million disappeared in surplus |
| 16 | ‘ Tell me one thing , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ Tell me one thing , baby . |
| 18 | ‘ Great King , ’ I said to him , ‘ just tell me one thing . |
| 19 | ‘ Just tell me one thing , ’ I said urgently . |
| 20 | ‘ Tell me one thing , dear Rose . |
| 21 | But tell me one thing , Howard . |
| 22 | ‘ Tell me one thing , Elwyn , ’ she said softly . |
| 23 | ‘ Your eyes and your lips tell me one thing ; your mind , your voice , your hands protest … |
| 24 | But I tell you one person who 's getting on my nerves is that good looking son at McDonalds . |
| 25 | " I tell you one way you 'll recruit a few more of the local lads , " he remarked . |
| 26 | I tell you one thing I used to enjoy , on this particular belt there were so many girls , what I used to enjoy was sending plenty of work down to them — I was responsible for how much work they got out … |
| 27 | ‘ I tell you one thing , and you do n't want to know . |
| 28 | Tell you one thing , though , if he puts in an appearance at the office , it 'll be the biggest mistake of his life … an' his last one ! ’ |
| 29 | He looked from one to the other , his bleak glance resting briefly on Sarella 's upturned face , and then he said , ‘ I tell you one thing , Peter ; when you 're down and out and she 's left you for richer pickings do n't come running to me for a hand-out , because it wo n't be forthcoming . |
| 30 | I I tell you one thing , once I go down I I 'm out . |