Example sentences of "tell [pron] [adv] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what he told me when I interviewed him that second time in Buenos Aires . ’ |
| 2 | These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day . |
| 3 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm staying , ’ he told me when I visited him last July . |
| 5 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 6 | ‘ From your conversation with Nina , can I assume that Jennifer told you why I visited her last night ? ’ |
| 7 | I told you why I want you here and that is to make you pay . ’ |
| 8 | Instead , she asked me why I thought I drank so much , and I told her why I thought I did . |
| 9 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 10 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ OK , so tell me how I fulfil my potential at this moment . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me how I did it . ’ |
| 13 | It 's good no I tell you why I thought they were crap cos you gave me an album and it had the had Dancing in the Moonlight and that was good but all the other songs on it were really shit . |
| 14 | No I tell you why I chucked them is because they 're a better make are n't they , K P ? |
| 15 | He said : ‘ If I tell you where I sold it you are going to go to those people and I wo n't be able to sell to them any more . |
| 16 | Tell you how I brought myself up on Wells , Huxley and Shaw ; how I prefer George Eliot and even Thackeray to Dickens ; how I like Orwell , Hardy and Housman , and dislike the Auden-Spender-Isherwood crew ( preaching socialism as a sideshoot of homosexual law reform ) ; how I 'm saving Virginia Woolf for when I 'm dead . |
| 17 | ‘ Now eat this while I tell you how I found you . ’ |
| 18 | Anyway , he did n't tell me when I met him . |
| 19 | ‘ Come , ’ said Fand , low , ‘ let me tell you why I called you here . |
| 20 | And I 'll tell you why I think it 's reasonable , Because they would only use them seriously in extreme circumstances . |
| 21 | I ca n't tell you how I miss him . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Get the drinks in and I 'll tell you how I did it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The boy will tell you how I saved his life , ’ Silver said through the fence . |
| 24 | things so erm , I knew it was something , anyway so she said all this , I said right well I said I 'll tell you now I said you know I 'm biased because |
| 25 | I knew I 'd never be free of the dog until he was gone ( Eric , poor well-meaning bright but ignorant Eric , thought I still was n't , and I just could n't tell him why I knew I was ) . |
| 26 | But I did n't tell him why I wanted it . |
| 27 | Cathy : ‘ I tend to buy most of my clothes from Next , but this top is n't — I 'm not telling you where I bought it ! ’ |
| 28 | I had to tell someone so I told her . |