Example sentences of "so [pron] [vb mod] [adv] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ George is over four months old and my father has never seen him , so I ca n't tell you what he thinks , ’ he told Hello ! magazine . |
| 3 | I have heard loose talk of people seeing things here by night , but I 've never paid the least attention , so I ca n't tell you what they claim . ’ |
| 4 | He said that he had a video which he would bring round , but when he arrived he claimed to have lost it and still did n't provide a written description , so I would n't tell him where the dogs were . |
| 5 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 6 | ‘ So you ca n't tell me much ? ’ |
| 7 | The space rattled with loud disconnecting sounds which echoed about so you could n't tell which direction they were coming from . |
| 8 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |