Example sentences of "she tell [pers pn] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you 'd make it for me , ’ Dana faltered ; usually Claudia would leap to do her twin 's bidding , but this morning she told her where the coffee lived , turned her back and went back to sleep . |
| 2 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 3 | ‘ It is necessary to have connections , you do not understand , ’ she told me when I remarked on the fact , though even the normally impassive Czechs leapt to their feet and gallantly opened doors for her at every available opportunity . |
| 4 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 5 | She told me when I come out of prison . |
| 6 | She told me when she came round . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She told me where to find Katelina , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 8 | She told me how much food to give him every day , and to be sure to leave the window open a bit so he could get into the garden and do his business . |
| 9 | Mrs Webster had a Friend ( to whom she always gave a metaphorical capital letter in speech ) , and she told me how much her Friend liked reading . |
| 10 | When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 . |
| 11 | And she told me how many shifts you work , the different groups in this home and what type of clients , how to treat them . ’ |
| 12 | She told me how sad it made her to go to races and see young people throwing their money away — had their parents never taught them to study form ? |
| 13 | She told me how she wrote several letters to her home complaining of the punishment she was given and begging to be taken away but she received no reply until one day her brother paid her a visit and gave her the news that their parents were both dead . |
| 14 | I asked Maureen about this strange and spectacular bird , and she told me how it came to be in her care . |
| 15 | When I was about twelve she told me how she 'd " flung " a sixpenny piece back at a titled woman who 'd given it her as a tip : " If you ca n't afford any more than that Madam , I suggest you keep it . " |
| 16 | Well , she told me how it come to be closed . |
| 17 | She told me how she thought the way to put Inside Out on the map was to do more hard , investigative stories . |
| 18 | As we walked she told me how she had always resisted her brother 's attempts to persuade her to emigrate to Pakistan . |
| 19 | She told me how much more exciting Willesden was than rural Bedfordshire , despite the once a year trips to Milton Keynes . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , she told me how you 'd been born early , weeks early , how you were very small , but not small enough for special care . |
| 21 | Yeah , well , she said she , she told them where to go , and they said they |
| 22 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 23 | It was when she told him where she was working that he was taken aback . |
| 24 | She told him where Dyson and Bob were , and he nodded and smiled again , as if he had known already . |
| 25 | She told him where she had been , what she had seen . |
| 26 | She told him where to go , and how to find it . |
| 27 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 28 | She told him how she used to dread her time . |
| 29 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 30 | She told him how she felt . |