Example sentences of "tell you [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 2 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 3 | Despite himself , he heard again Fael-Inis 's words earlier : who told you that life was intended to be easy , Mortal ? |
| 4 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 5 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 7 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 8 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 9 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 10 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 11 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 12 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 13 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 14 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 15 | ‘ I bet she told you all sorts of tales . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 18 | ‘ I told you twenty times . ’ |
| 19 | I told you twenty times about that ! |
| 20 | I told you this kind of mingling always ends in tears . ’ |
| 21 | The child seemed so lost in thought she hardly looked where she was walking , and when they reached the gate of Matilda 's home , Miss Honey said , ‘ You had better forget everything I told you this afternoon . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Just pray by reciting what I told you this morning , ’ the mother persuaded her . |
| 23 | ’ You must have been furious , ’ I added , ’ when he told you this morning why he 'd picked you up . ’ |
| 24 | Aye , and er you see I used to go over , I used to go over on a Sunday , when they came , if you , on the er well you see as I told you this chap here . |
| 25 | Oh well , I told you another time then ! |
| 26 | Lucy said with a hint of triumph , ‘ I told you another car would come along soon . ’ |
| 27 | We told you last Sunday that Forest had swooped for top French defender Laurent Blanc but his wages at Napoli were a stumbling block . |
| 28 | Do you remember what I told you last night ? ’ |
| 29 | I told you last night , George , I ca n't do more than merely agree . |
| 30 | ‘ I told you last night when I brought the evenings over how it would be . |