Example sentences of "tell [pron] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Untie it , bring it here and if someone asks you why you 're doing that , tell them that the master needs it and we 'll send it back at once . |
| 2 | Tell them that the competition is to see who can go through the obstacles blindfold without touching them . |
| 3 | The first time the adventurers make any attempt to break it , tell them that the figure of Khorne appears to move in the frame and the eyes of the god appear to be turned on them . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell me that a week from now , ’ he challenged , and Jenna eyed him firmly . |
| 5 | On the BBC 's Breakfast With Frost programme , Mr Rushdie said : ‘ The people who analyse these threats tell me that the level of threat has never diminished . |
| 6 | When I tell you that the solo and instrumental contribution hardly lags behind in any of these respects , you will no doubt become aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for this issue . |
| 7 | You may be less complacent when I tell you that the friction of pulling just one wet and grit-encrusted rope through an abseil anchor can be enough to weaken thin tape to the point of sudden fracture when the next load is applied . |
| 8 | The Queens Hotel in Gibraltar may sound very posh , but when I tell you that the furniture and decor have n't changed since the ‘ fifties it may put it into its proper perspective . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm old enough to be forgiven if I tell you that the news did n't sadden me . |
| 10 | So , let no one tell you that the study of the British constitution and constitutional theory is a boring irrelevance . |
| 11 | The 4 oz in 80 oz is still the standard way most embalmers treat cases , but what if I tell you that the wheel has been re-invented ! — that there are a lot ( and I stress a lot ) of good embalmers out there who use 10,16 , 25 and even 40 , yes , 40 oz and 60 oz per 80 oz . |
| 12 | ‘ Asking the wrong question ’ or ‘ irrelevancy ’ tell one that an error has been made , but they do not tell one whether the error is jurisdictional . |
| 13 | I tell him that a friend who is even now in the Karakoram had been told that in Pakistan it was advisable to double the suggested dose of tablets and then to boil the water for twenty minutes . |
| 14 | Then tell him that the problem is for him to free the rope without taking his hand out of his pocket or untying the rope . |
| 15 | I tell him that the idea of investigating the life of a beautiful French anthropologist , who , in common with seventy thousand other Jews from France , was gassed ( in a crowd , indistinguishable to the SS as the laibon 's cattle are to me ) , was my starting point . |
| 16 | Go back to the tiger and tell him that the cow would n't come with you , but that your wife is bringing it . " |
| 17 | ‘ Please tell her that a relation wants to see her . |
| 18 | Statistics tell us that every man , woman and child can expect to go into hospital a number of times during their lives . |
| 19 | Macijauskas ' photographs tell us that a country is its people . |
| 20 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 21 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 22 | The words ‘ Pod gathered ’ tell us that the sentence which they interrupt is a report of something said to Pod , namely still part of Spiller 's explanation . |
| 23 | Astrologers tell us that the water signs are non-confrontational . |
| 24 | Now corals are very sensitive to changes in water temperature and these regular bands tell us that the water temperatures did n't change very much . |
| 25 | For example , there are theories of memory that tell us that the recall of recently presented items reflects the operation of short-term storage . |
| 26 | The engineers tell us that the core of the building is intact and that it could be rebuilt and restructured . |
| 27 | ‘ Informants tell us that the enemy has halted at Annan town . |
| 28 | Opposition men tell us that the fighting on the border is escalating , and not being reported . |
| 29 | British Rail tell us that the train that should arrive at Oxford at 5.35 from Scotland is going to be two hours late this evening but I 've no problems to report to you from any of the bus companies locally . |