Example sentences of "tell we " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | Whether his witness against a background of hate because he told we look at the Paraclete 's role in the world or among the disciples the answer is the same . |
| 3 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 4 | All told we 're adding maybe another 45 minutes to the journey using public transport and foot as opposed to using your own car . |
| 5 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 6 | My only training and instruction for the job was given by a detective chief inspector , who told us to ‘ get out there and lock up thieves ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , there was a whole community living here then , ’ Harry told us , ‘ but I suppose I 'm all that 's left . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 9 | Harry invited us back though , and told us , ‘ The crack was good , ’ and Graham just smiled . |
| 10 | Apparently no specific policy but managers told us they had some problems in the past with dogs messing in the store . |
| 11 | But , as the conference slogan told us again and again , ‘ Meet the Challenge : Make the Change . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 13 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 14 | He was delighted , he told us , to be back in England and , most particularly , Birmingham . |
| 15 | ‘ Over the meal he told us that he had discussed with the authorities what people would be released . |
| 16 | You told us earlier that she was your girlfriend . |
| 17 | Did n't we call earlier and you told us she was your girlfriend ? |
| 18 | This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker . |
| 19 | Copemaman of the Friends , told us that he seldom went out without seeing corpses lying about . |
| 20 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 21 | Someone pretty old told us moths flew to light . |
| 22 | He told us he was 16 but really he was only 15 . |
| 23 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 24 | The Circle went through the middle of his bed , he told us , so he had a reason for crossing it every night . |
| 25 | Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano . |
| 26 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 27 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 28 | With great glee Odd-Knut told us that the fat Germans showered ten times every day for a week and still reeked of rotten whale . |
| 29 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 30 | When he left Odd-Knut told us he was Lappish , and that when asked if the trail to our campsite was piled high with snow he had said yes it was , but that he would break it for us if we were willing to pay . |