Example sentences of "[noun sg] to tell [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Many creatures , too , use visible light to tell them what is happening in the world immediately around them . |
| 2 | So why the big scruple to tell us ? |
| 3 | If there is a particular site for which you want to be kept informed of any future development , you can ask the planning department to tell you if it receives an application affecting it . |
| 4 | ‘ He was beastly to me on Saturday night , and it would give me great pleasure to tell him I was right all along . |
| 5 | Yet it gave him pleasure to tell her so . |
| 6 | For some reason this inspires the barman to tell me there were a lot of good boxers in the 1980s because they were hungry . |
| 7 | Well , rightly or wrongly we 've come to arrangements with the Liberals , not because we like the Liberals , not because we wanted to , but we , we were fed up with be being in opposition to tell you the truth . |
| 8 | Given the reaction that we are getting , it is probably not for us to defend our policy — it is more for the Opposition to tell us how darkness , secrecy and the protection of a closed professional world will serve the public good in education . |
| 9 | So would somebody from Group A like to tell us what Group B press release was about . |
| 10 | He opens his mouth to tell her this , but she puts her finger on his lips to silence him . |
| 11 | He could n't be much further from the truth — but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him so , some deep-down instinct stopped her in her tracks . |
| 12 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 13 | She would have continued to attack him further , but , even as she opened her mouth to tell him exactly what she thought of philandering , two-timing men who played around with their office staff , she heard Ross swearing violently under his breath . |
| 14 | Brian opened his mouth to tell his wife she was a liar and then realized that that would be too strong . |
| 15 | The other day , I ‘ phoned Robert at college to tell him that I had photographed his favourite aircraft that morning . |
| 16 | Some creature he had met at a dinner party recently ( he was , it had to be said , from East Finchley ) had had the nerve to tell him that New York was ‘ more vibrant ’ than Wimbledon . |
| 17 | I had n't got the nerve to tell him I had n't got the nerve . |
| 18 | ‘ From now on , that charge will be mine , ’ he 'd had the utter nerve to tell her . |
| 19 | We probably do n't need Jan Pahl 's pioneering research to tell us how fragile conjugal consensus is . |
| 20 | He told the shepherd to tell his own people that he would use these weapons to regain the Holy Sepulchre . |
| 21 | However , where the police or Customs & Excise officers are acting under the authority of the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986 it is an offence for the practitioner to tell anyone anything regarding their investigation ; even the fact that one is taking place . |
| 22 | It would n't do any good to tell her the truth — if it was the truth . |
| 23 | It would do no good to tell him how hard she had worked to build her small business — he was too upset about his sister to listen . |
| 24 | Reaching the middle of the field , she laid the nearside rein on the chestnut 's neck to tell him to go right . |
| 25 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 26 | Yes , I was working at Walsall airport er Walsall electrics , sorry , at the time and er I 've been out to the pictures I , with a couple of friends and er I got home this particular evening and I put the late night dance music on on the radio and they , they interrupted the programme to tell us that er Germany had accepted unconditional surrender and the war was over . |
| 27 | Napoleon then climbed a pyramid to tell his triumphant forces that " From these monuments forty centuries look down upon you " . |
| 28 | ‘ It is easy for the guidance to tell us what not to do , but it is very difficult to legislate for all possible scenarios . ’ |
| 29 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 30 | The adrenalin was pumping away , but as the marksmen made no attempt to tell us to strip off and the minutes dragged by , so it began to ease away . |