Example sentences of "[coord] tell [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you want to ask me something or tell me about something you put your hand up and wait for me to ask you . |
| 2 | Come and tell me about this morning , ’ He looked round for Catherine to discover that with admirable good sense she had asked for the facilities of the house , and was being issued with soap and hand-towels by Miss Williams . |
| 3 | Putting a hand on her arm , he said gently , ‘ Would you like to sit for a while and tell me about it ? ’ |
| 4 | I spoke to her , telling her to do as we had earlier discussed and detach herself from the scene so that she could see it and tell me about it but could not feel any distress , whether mental , physical or emotional . |
| 5 | Try to get a grip on yourself and tell me about it . ’ |
| 6 | You come down here and tell me about the time you went to the Abacos . ’ |
| 7 | And tell me about the lady who did abortions , erm , did you know very much about what sort of people they were ? |
| 8 | ‘ Sit down and tell me about it . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Well , sit down , ’ said Holmes , ‘ and tell me about yourself . ’ |
| 10 | and tell me about you , what do you do ? |
| 11 | ‘ Call in on your way home and tell me about it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Come and sit here and tell me about yourself . |
| 13 | ‘ Parents and teachers can write to me , and tell me about their kids . |
| 14 | Come and tell me about nursery . |
| 15 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 16 | And tell me of a better left hander . |
| 17 | No it 's to much of a , I hate saying I 'll go out at eight o'clock and tell him to be home and at quarter too eight he has n't come and oh , I 'm to tired really , but , so I 've always played it that I will help when I when I can , but uhum , I do n't go on the committee , cos then your stuck , you 've got to go . |
| 18 | Do n't waste another night , she said ; if there is somebody here you want then you go right up and tell him about it , you just tell him , because he may not be here tomorrow night . |
| 19 | You could talk dirty , and tell him about your wildest fantasies … |
| 20 | Will the Minister take time in the next week , as a matter of urgency , to meet the Israeli ambassador and tell him about the feeling in the country generally that the Israeli Government are literally getting away with murder ? |
| 21 | But first I think we should phone Azadi himself and tell him in no uncertain terms that we are as unhappy about this as he is . |
| 22 | I have , all my life long , been lying till noon ; yet I tell all young men , and tell them with great sincerity , that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good . ’ |
| 23 | Eckstein says he may ring up Levi 's executives and tell them into which bodily part they can stick their proposal . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to infiltrate the skinheads and tell them about black people . |
| 25 | They meet Clive and Alison at the beach , and tell them about it . |
| 26 | If I have n't made any headway by Tuesday morning , I 'll go to the police and tell them about the plate . |
| 27 | Who do nothing else but phone businesses and organizations and surgeries and golf clubs and tell them about our products . |
| 28 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 29 | And she used to make up these stories and tell them to me . |
| 30 | 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 . |