Example sentences of "tell her [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to invite you , ’ he told her again later ( his hand over hers beneath the tablecloth ) . |
| 2 | It was to his girlfriend in Harare and he told her straight away that he was showing the French a thing or two , but it still was n't like the old days with the Rhodesian Light Infantry . |
| 3 | She was desperate to get out , but each time she tested her sprain it told her not yet . |
| 4 | She asked after you and was pleased when I told her how well your business was doing and that you seemed in good spirits since she said she had been anxious for you . |
| 5 | He did n't want Gina using those arguments next time he told her how much better he could have done for himself . |
| 6 | went up five pounds , my sister done her nut till I told her how much ours was . |
| 7 | The two students who were watching over her told her very sensibly that if she tried to drive the car she 'd probably kill herself . |
| 8 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |
| 9 | She saw that look come into his eyes again — the look that told her so clearly how little she meant to him . |
| 10 | It was beautiful , and the work Marie-Christine was putting into it was exquisite , and Sabine told her so sincerely . |
| 11 | and er then she said if she you know I have them and I said no I told her all right we 'll be seeing you and |
| 12 | I told her all right ? |
| 13 | The look in his eyes told her quite clearly he did n't believe a word of it , and she struggled to maintain a bland , ingenuous expression on her own features , wondering if even he could be cruel enough to brand her a liar . |
| 14 | Victorine was confused by the tale Baptiste had told her just now when he and his mother turned up at the back door with Léonie 's sandal and an armful of bread . |
| 15 | Would she understand how Juliet felt , with their tiny house and small garden , when the Westwoods lived in a great house with lots of land — Nigel had told her often enough — and all their friends were the same ? |
| 16 | When his dinner arrived from the trattoria — he had told her long ago he preferred their food to hers which suited her perfectly well — it was eight minutes late . |
| 17 | She knew I was no longer close friends with Frank , but of the rest I had told her very little : her own love-affair would be soiled , I felt , by my tale — so disgusting , so absurd . |
| 18 | Gloria said , ‘ If you want to use the Smiths ' swimming pool , ’ — for Nutty had told her quite plainly that she did — ‘ friday night is your night . |
| 19 | ‘ We must find Clare and tell her straight away . ’ |
| 20 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 21 | I 'll tell her anyway otherwise we might have the sack . |
| 22 | Do tell her how nice she looks , wo n't you ? |
| 23 | Aunt Harriet would have been cross , normally , for the seat of the swing made green press-marks on her skirt , but the visitor had spoken up for her , taken whatever blame there was and Aunt Harriet had led Eleanor away to wash her hands before tea , telling her how very , very lucky she was , and how she must always be grateful to the Minister and remember this occasion in future years . |
| 24 | Then she remembered Peter telling her how much his brother liked women — and how much they liked him . |
| 25 | If your elderly parent is in the habit of doing this , the only way around it is to tell her quite frankly , as kindly as possible ( even at the risk of giving some offence ) , that there are certain times of the day when it is very difficult for you to make or receive phone calls except in an emergency . |