Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adv] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the family grew more and more irritated as Frank interrupted every conversation they tried to have with Terry , saying , ‘ You 're not telling that right , Ted , ’ or ‘ I could tell them more about that , Ted ’ . |
| 2 | Use questions such as ‘ what else ? , what more ? , can you tell me more about that ? ’ in order to extract more information . |
| 3 | Requests : ‘ Can you tell me more about that ? ’ or ‘ Yes , go on ’ will encourage further expansion . |
| 4 | ‘ Now I 'm officially off the case , I wish you 'd tell me more about this mysterious Zbigniew Nowak . ’ |
| 5 | Well I could n't just tell you honestly about that but I think the riveters decided who got what , you know . |
| 6 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 7 | ‘ They can tell you more about that than I. ’ She took a deep breath . |
| 8 | I 'll tell you more about both of them tomorrow . |