Example sentences of "back [coord] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 2 | Go back and tell her everything 's going to be all right . ’ |
| 3 | Her voice brittle , Luce suggested , ‘ Well , you 'd better phone her back and tell her it 's been found . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Just think back and tell us if you noticed the statuette last night during your — perambulations . ’ |
| 5 | Why not just call you back and tell you what they told me ? — what you obviously knew all along , that there 's no hope at all of looking at secret files . ’ |
| 6 | You know she 'll always 'ave the last word , so please come back and tell 'er yer sorry fer yer 'arsh words . ’ |
| 7 | Just see what you can see and come back and tell me . ’ |
| 8 | I was just wondering , having reached my seat , whether I could whip back and tell him to belt it out a bit , when it stopped altogether . |
| 9 | He does n't think that widening the carriageway on the corner of Road and Road will be very sensible , but that was n't what we were suggesting , we were suggesting I think on er Avenue rather than so we 'll have to write back and tell him . |
| 10 | Should she go back and tell him she 'd changed her mind ? |
| 11 | You what , do n't be so stupid we 've got to go back and tell him , we ca n't do things like that . |
| 12 | I 'll come back and tell you . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll come back and tell you what they say . ’ |
| 14 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 15 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 16 | Princess Anne , who was at the helm of the boat she chose with his help , gazed back and told him simply : ‘ Yes . ’ |
| 17 | Well again , I , I , I had to do it as a kid but I did n't afterwards but er , I er , tell you about this chap and I even went back and told him . |
| 18 | Striving hard for some normality , she pulled her head back and told him , ‘ I d-did n't say a word to anyone about — about us . ’ |
| 19 | Adrian asked them the way to Woodbrook , then came back and told me that there was a ruined castle behind the shop . |
| 20 | He 'd been charged eventually and thrust into a cell for the night ; then , half an hour later , without explanation , given his belt back and told he could go . |
| 21 | I do n't want you coming back and telling me that what we need is more data . |
| 22 | Only I went to Donald Stewart 's smithy and Mary was there , chatting to her mother , so by the time I had fixed things up with Donald and went along to Grandtully to explain the plan to Alex , Mary had already gone back and told him . |
| 23 | they 've wrote back and told them they 're not going . |
| 24 | If they have finished the investigation no one has written back and told me . ’ |