Example sentences of "tell i [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 2 | You told me next Wednesday next Tuesday . |
| 3 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 4 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
| 5 | Do you know what he told me last night ? |
| 6 | Wright , an affable New Zealander , told me last night : ‘ There are loads of reasons for my going , but the main one is the state of the modern game . |
| 7 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 8 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
| 9 | ‘ My dearest David — although I do n't have the faintest idea why I should still call you this after what you told me last night — I 've had a long think . |
| 10 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 11 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
| 12 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 13 | They told me last night that he had been arrested . |
| 14 | You probably told me last night but I ca n't remember , I was just off |
| 15 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 16 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 17 | Well he told me last year he 'd applied . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's an adventure , ’ he told me last week . |
| 19 | Er you told me last week |
| 20 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
| 21 | He told me last week there had been more than 100 applicants for the Section Eight grants which encourage it . |
| 22 | So we start negative two , minus two , and I know what add means cos you told me last time . |
| 23 | ‘ Particularly , ’ she continued , quite spoiling the effect , ‘ when I remember all too well what you told me last time we met , as well as … ’ |
| 24 | You told me last time . |
| 25 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |
| 26 | Well , if you wo n't accept my favours , tell me next time . |
| 27 | Joey tells me last night he said oh by the way he said you do n't wan na hire your car up er the Berry 's . |
| 28 | Please do n't tell me next week 's the twenty ninth . |
| 29 | ‘ Why did n't you tell me last night ? ’ |
| 30 | She 's got no children , she was telling me last night in bed , there 's none on the way either . |