Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , nothing at all about the lock and two years after closed and it was because of this because the men on the phone told me so and er anyway brought about the bridge and er I er accepted it , you know what I mean , it was that was it , I 'd done it myself . |
| 2 | And it I mean it it does n't help saying I told you so but I did |
| 3 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 4 | But if you bothered to ask , anyone in the Anti-Nazi League could have told you so before you got that 50p stuck in your face . |
| 5 | She knew , for she had told him so that first night , that her situation , alone , unchaperoned , unprotected — and that was the worst of it ! — laid her open to advances . |
| 6 | In other words ‘ if he thought he was nt part of the future plans Id have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ? |
| 7 | He 'd lied about so much else , and it was quite clear now why he 'd wanted to know so much about Ryan , where he was , what he 'd done ; he 'd wanted to know how much or how little Ryan had told her so that he did n't make the same mistakes . |
| 8 | Antoinette had told her so that day in Monpazier . |
| 9 | BELVILLE : I found her to be a coquette , an told her so and she is offended . |
| 10 | If you can not pay them immediately , then you must tell them so when they are instructed in order that they can decline to accept the instructions if they wish . |
| 11 | Could you tell me so that I can find the statement . |
| 12 | It 's very unlikely that your body will be short of salt , but if it is , it will tell you so and you 'll crave salty foods . |
| 13 | The only thing she could do was tell him so and leave for home as soon as possible . |
| 14 | I was going to tell you so that day Faye came home from hospital — Boxing Day . |
| 15 | ‘ I would imagine she wanted you to tell her so that she can tell Alan , and he wo n't expect anyone to produce the actual tissue-typing results while they 're there . ’ |