Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [pron] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't have believed you could have told me anything I did n't know about the seamy side of life in this town . |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me something I had n't already figured out for myself . |
| 3 | Yeah and tell me something I 've always wanted to know . |
| 4 | She listened attentively , all the while thinking , Tell me something I do n't know . |
| 5 | The word ‘ pyrotechnic ’ recurs from page to page with studied insouciance , a covert challenge from Meades as he sits back paring his fingernails : tell me something I do n't know already . ’ |
| 6 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 7 | stew where I come from is carrots , er turnips , potatoes and meat , I tell you what I have n't had , I think I 'll have a change , I think I 'll have some instead of mince for a change |
| 8 | What , I tell you what I do n't see . |
| 9 | I tell you what I think sometimes you probably pick up your ashtray the doors open it was warm . |
| 10 | He said we I tell you what I did n't like , mum an I said what ? |
| 11 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 12 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you what I 've just had a thought . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll tell you what I know so far . |
| 15 | And I 'll tell you what I find even more impressive : The figures you gave me accord exactly with Spackman 's . |
| 16 | ‘ How can you make me tell you something I do n't know ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |
| 18 | It does n't tell you anything I have n't already told you but it gives you reassurance . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're not telling me anything I do n't already know . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're not telling me anything I do n't already know , Carrie . |
| 21 | When my mother , in a state of total embarrassment , attempted to enlighten me , I had to help her out by telling her what I knew already . |
| 22 | His face looked old and crumpled and sad , and , as he picked up his glass again , I had the strong sensation he was about to tell me something I did n't want to hear . |
| 23 | I 'm going to tell you something I do n't want repeated , not to anyone . ’ |