Example sentences of "tell [pron] [conj] [pers pn] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 3 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 4 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 5 | ‘ After all , from what you told me before you went to Japan you intend to go on living a bachelor life , almost as if I do n't exist . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ she told me as she went to bed that night . |
| 7 | ‘ As I told you when you came to dinner with Ed and me at his apartment in Helsinki , I 'm a trained psychologist — like Sandy . |
| 8 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 9 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 10 | ‘ I told him if he wanted to be a great athlete he would have to stop chasing them . ’ |
| 11 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 12 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 13 | ‘ Tell me if you want to , dearest . |
| 14 | and then there 's me , tell me when it gets to eleven and like I had to go and get a shower and put the dinner all out and all before I left at half four . |
| 15 | But she also saw something in Shelley 's face , and she went on more quietly , ‘ OK , OK , tell me when you want to — if you want to . |
| 16 | just tw okay now , just keep , stand here and tell me when I come to the good bit . |
| 17 | and er when I tell you that I went to the detective staff in nineteen twenty seven , then we started with our first mobile help . |
| 18 | During both readings tap the rhythm , and also have somebody to listen to you and tell you if you switch to the wrong rhythm . |
| 19 | You may tell me that I went to the wrong place to begin with — and I can now agree . |
| 20 | I 'll tell you if I want to , he thinks I am a child . |
| 21 | I 'll tell you when we get to the restaurant . ’ |
| 22 | If these claims fail , others who should be protecting her interests will tell her that she contributed to the situation by being in male territory . |
| 23 | Meg stood there a moment , staring at the journal , wondering what it said , knowing Ben would tell her when he wanted to . |
| 24 | Or they could tell themselves that they belonged to a European Community from which they were in fact , until very recently , separated by a long stretch of communist-occupied territory ; and that too was not exactly convincing . |
| 25 | The admirable Charlie , an FA vice-president , tells us that he bowed to local pressure by wearing a handsome red tie with the appropriate initials SAFC . |