Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike traditional sales where you wait until you get round there to tell them what the price is you have you have to er tell them what er the price on the phone .
2 ‘ Look , Cand , are you going to tell me what the heck you 're talking about , or do I have to play riddle-me-ree for the next few hours ? ’
3 Another way would be to tell me what the angle is from
4 Are you going to tell me what the hell is going on ? ’
5 Without Michael Fish ( no pun intended ) to tell me what the weather would bring the next day , I was very pleased to find that the local paper La Voz de Galicia carried an excellent synoptic chart and forecast .
6 I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream .
7 If you see new words written and are not sure of the pronunciation because you have not heard the word or phrase used , check the pronunciation with friends — they do not have to be experts at phonetics to tell you what the word rhymes with — then bring it into your own conversation with confidence .
8 ‘ They 're hardly likely to tell you what the cunt 's planning .
9 Those chaps in helmets who 're always willing to tell you what the time is . ’
10 If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture .
11 He asked the lawyer to tell him what the Law said .
12 Are you able to tell us what the timescale of that is ?
13 to meet with Jim so that we can a a the objective of which will be for Jim to tell us what the content of his course is , so we can assess where whether there are gaps in our training .
14 We 've found no one yet who 's willing to tell us what the collar is .
15 He 's an expert and to tell us what the practice is .
16 Ian McCaskill 's trying to tell us what the weather forecast 'll
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