Example sentences of "tell me [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 2 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 7 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 13 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 17 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 18 | The evangelist Leighton Ford , who told me this story some years ago , used it to illustrate the fear of many churches of the evangelist coming in and bringing all kinds of disturbing , unsavoury characters into the church . |
| 19 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 20 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 21 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 22 | He told me this morning . ’ |
| 23 | Bailey told me this morning . |
| 24 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |
| 25 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 26 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ She told me this morning when she got back to the yacht that they planned on going . |
| 28 | What they told me this morning ? ’ |
| 29 | no , no cos she just told me this morning you were going to see her work in the morning . |
| 30 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |