Example sentences of "i [vb mod] tell [pron] about the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must tell you about the pet shop . ’ |
| 2 | We have not yet resolved all the detail but I should tell you about the key aspects of these changes so that we can go forward together to put the new arrangements successfully in place . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you about the Mary Chain tomorrow . |
| 5 | Erm I 'll tell you about the er while I 'm doing some . |
| 6 | And we had four casters in the works and I had to go and sort out the , I 'll tell you about the find the castings that these men wanted for their lot , take them down to the castors and tell them in priority which I wanted , you know and er all that sort of thing and erm I had n't used to do any , making any locks hardly at the end , you know I had , I had before but er if I might say so , er I became mo the most important man on the factory , you know . |
| 7 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 8 | Three years later the same person said : ’ I 'll tell you about the poll tax . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you about the wedding |
| 10 | I could tell you about the money he has lent to people and never got back . |
| 11 | I wish I could tell you about the new brand names that have entered my life to take their place alongside Sony , Miyake , Commodore , Brother , Byblos , Hitachi and Nintendo — Mama and Papas , Baby Gap , Avanti , Ultra-Togs , Mama Toto , Mini/Man . |
| 12 | I 'd tell them about the plants . |
| 13 | And I shall tell him about the journalism , too , for I want to go on writing , and I want nothing false and wrong to lie between us . |
| 14 | My monthly articles will include techniques which should help you to use and get the best from your machine , but first I will tell you about the back-up services available to Singer knitters . |
| 15 | " Sit beside me on my carpet , then , and I will tell you about the golden apple and the nine peahens . " |
| 16 | ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’ |
| 17 | This is all I can tell you about the rapid modification process ; it has the effect of diminishing the prominence of events and combinations of events that normally occur together , giving prominence to new associations . |