Example sentences of "try to tell [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day , Dr John Greg of the Medical Research Council tried to tell us that contact with small quantities of dioxins was harmless when he stated in The Independent that 5,000 ppt is a safe level for bleached paper products . |
| 2 | Do n't try to tell me that life is fair . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Bella ; Bella ? — who according to you has slept with half of London — expects you to go through this … this disgusting pantomime in order to get a divorce ? |
| 4 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me that Ace blackmailed you into becoming his lover ? ’ |
| 5 | This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units . |
| 6 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |