Example sentences of "you tell [pers pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we finally left the school the return journey home was even worse than the journey to school with pupils being cheeky when you told them to sit down and face the front . |
| 2 | ‘ You told them to phone you ! ’ she gasped . |
| 3 | You told them to dump the body in the bay , where it would n't be found for a while . |
| 4 | If you told them to fuck off , they 'd tell you to fuck off back . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And you told him to give himself up ? ’ |
| 6 | The TO said , ‘ He talked to you on the phone and you told him to come in . |
| 7 | ‘ So you told him to get stuffed , did you ? ’ |
| 8 | I 'm doing everything that you told me to do . |
| 9 | ‘ And then what do I do when I get the answer to these questions you told me to ask , and the newspaper ? ’ |
| 10 | You told me to put it in the safe place . |
| 11 | ‘ You told me to take the Riverton file down to the vault . |
| 12 | You told me to take it all the way out . |
| 13 | Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) . |
| 14 | Doing what you told me to unload it |
| 15 | Because , because you told me to turn it over and watch something else . |
| 16 | ‘ I did and you told me to trust you and I did , and I do , but you wo n't tell me anything — ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The one you told me to tell him , of course . ’ |
| 18 | Well that 's where you told me to tell him to put it , behind the shed . |
| 19 | ‘ You told me to help Estabrook if he needed it . ’ |
| 20 | was a spent match , and you told me to drop it . |
| 21 | ‘ You told me to keep away from you , ’ she murmured shakily . |
| 22 | You told me to meet you further back . ' ’ |
| 23 | You told me to throw it away before but I kept it to put that other mug in it . |
| 24 | Oh I 'll show you that letter you told me to read cos I got a here . |
| 25 | And you told me to come September for about the cream . |
| 26 | Just say you told me to come along . |
| 27 | Aide says , ‘ She met you in Aspen and you told her to give you a call when she got back into town . ’ |
| 28 | And you told it to leave it be ? |
| 29 | wait , wait , you know you told us to use the rest of them and we did n't even get a I think she asked me |
| 30 | ‘ You told us to check everything ! ’ |