Example sentences of "tell me that [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 | Sadie was tellin' me that bloke they ‘ ung last year fer killin' that shopkeeper over in Stepney used ter be one o' the crowd 'er Billy 's gettin' wiv . ’ |
| 18 | He was n't badly hurt but people have since told me that shock sometimes starts the onset of diabetes . |
| 19 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 20 | Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it . |
| 21 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 22 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 23 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 24 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 25 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 26 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 27 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |
| 28 | representative , and , an independent superintendent , have just inspected the ship and tell me that loading can not start until the crew have dried out the holds — that will delay us a while . |
| 29 | My doctor tells me that leg of his must still be hurting like the devil . |
| 30 | Letterman tells me that casting in Paris is going well . |