Example sentences of "[pron] tell [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What did I tell that Cotton bloke ? ’ |
| 2 | Who did I tell that to ? |
| 3 | That 's the way I tell them , do I tell these , that joke I told you before ? |
| 4 | Did I tell this , |
| 5 | Quad erratic demonstrandum Sir : Will someone tell all these wealthy Microsofts , Lotus 's and Nortons , who seem to want to deluge Joe public with Rolling Wallpaper . |
| 6 | ‘ How can you tell that ? ’ asked the cowboy . |
| 7 | They found that five-year-olds and nine-year-olds showed a tendency to respond to How can you tell that ? questions by referring to a cause rather than to evidence , though this tendency was less strong for their nine-year-olds than for their five-year-olds . |
| 8 | ‘ And , ’ said Caspar , ‘ there is a heavy feeling to the air now , can you tell that ? ’ |
| 9 | Will you tell that gaoler to give me some wine ? ’ |
| 10 | go on then why , how can you tell that ? |
| 11 | ‘ So why did you tell all this to Nicola ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Did you tell any other person that Sir Paul was spending the night here yesterday ? ’ |
| 13 | Why did n't you tell any of us ? ’ |
| 14 | Does she tell any of the , some of the inside secrets ? |
| 15 | Will she tell some of her hon. Friends that a recent independent study has shown that if the basis of representation in Scotland were equated with that in England , the Conservative party in Scotland would cease to be an endangered species and become an extinct species ? |
| 16 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 17 | But how could she tell this man all that ? |
| 18 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 19 | Let me tell each of you the truth , one by one . |
| 20 | But here the descriptions play an important role , and serious students would do well to read them carefully ; for not only do they tell more than any photograph ever can , including technical details of construction , but , when studied with the photographs , or in front of the objects themselves , they are invaluable in helping to focus on the many significant details which might otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 21 | Would he tell all ? |
| 22 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |