Example sentences of "[coord] tells [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has from day one showed her disdain for me as one opposed to hypocrisy and her type of esoteric or pseudo intellectuality — being satisfied as I am with intelligence , integrity and interest ( ! ) — and has manifestly made it clear she overtly dislikes me because I wo n't be moulded or do what she wants or tells me — she suffers the matriarch/ bossy syndrome ( childhood nickname I am told was ) and does not like the fact I am utterly my own forthright person who spoils the incestuous sibling smythe-watson quartet which she ‘ ran ’ so self-interestedly for so long … |
| 2 | For them Christine keeps a list of phone numbers for animal homes which might have the animal ; she sends them posters to put up in schools , vets ' surgeries and newsagents ; and tells them to check sheds and garages in case their pet is locked inside . |
| 3 | Spotting a stricken boat , they are amazed when a terrified young man ( Billy Zane ) swims towards them , climbs aboard and tells them a horrifying story about an attack of food poisoning . |
| 4 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 5 | And so throwing up its hands in horror and resignation it turns to the priests and pastors of religion — of a more primitive world order — and tells them to get on with it . |
| 6 | McDunn gets on the phone to somebody from Tayside police and tells them to contact the Goulds and stop the funeral . |
| 7 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 8 | Quality control actually formally takes the results back to the production process people , and tells them to , to adjust the process . |
| 9 | The Commander 's gay as a grasshopper , old Dass 's son walks in and tells them they make him sick to the teeth . |
| 10 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 11 | He joins a general strike by those who have been dispossessed on Urras and tells them : ‘ ( on Anarres ) we have nothing but our freedom . |
| 12 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 13 | At the end of the Mass there is a touching prayer as men go out into the world linking the sacrament of the one bread which binds all men in God with the bread and ale of human meeting : In the bidding prayers where the priest directs the people to pray and tells them what to pray for , probably after the offering and the anthem , again attention is directed to all estates of society , living and dead , including religious , both monastic and secular . |
| 14 | It reminds traders of their obligations under the law and tells them how to spot a sniffer . |
| 15 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 16 | She will not hear of it and tells him the summer will restore her to her full strength , a story you have heard before and will not believe any more than I do . |
| 17 | The drunken winger goes berserk and tells him to stick his blindfold sideways up his arse . |
| 18 | With extraordinary self-control , the dripping doc grins sportingly and tells him : ‘ I can see you 're going to be a fireman when you grow up ! ’ |
| 19 | But unless Mr Clinton sits him down and tells him what he believes in , Mr Gergen will work no miracles . |
| 20 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 21 | She goes up to him and tells him to stuff himself and in a flat half-minute he 's belting the old lorry up the London road . |
| 22 | She bolsters him up and feeds his ego and tells him he 's wonderful — is it kind ? |
| 23 | 08.20 Alan Anderson phones Ray Taylor at Stadium , apologises for causing problems and tells him replacement stock is available . |
| 24 | He still finds her extremely beautiful and she practically apologises to Pip for all the suffering that she put him through and tells him that she hopes they will still be friends ‘ apart ’ . |
| 25 | Eve comes to him and tells him what she 's done . |
| 26 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 27 | Tony measures the temperature and tells me it is warming up . |
| 28 | Tony brings me a cup of coffee and tells me that the tracks we crossed a while back were , Odd-Knut says , jarv or wolverine . |
| 29 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 30 | The policeman knows OK and tells me , but he looks at me funny all the time . |