Example sentences of "tell [noun prp] [noun] [conj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talk drifted off into technicalities for a while , and then , those disposed of , Nagel told Herr Nordern that he could go . |
| 2 | I merely told David Knell that I might write more in future . ’ |
| 3 | I told Sir Paul that he would find a booklet describing the church in the bookstand . |
| 4 | The Popplewells told Mr Smith that they would continue with the show but as the country was in such a state of uncertainty they would not be able to pay the Girls ’ wages ! |
| 5 | ‘ My guess — it 's no more than that — is that somebody came around earlier and told Mrs Tanner that there 'd be a couple of hundred quid in it for her if you showed up . |
| 6 | Two weeks later Sarah told Mrs Bradford that she would have to leave , making Maggie the excuse . |
| 7 | He told Mrs Avery that he would let her have a cheque by November 1st . |
| 8 | Ariel saw the timehri , a chevron cut by a downward stroke , signifying great peril ; then again , later , after she told Jack Elsey that she could not find the necessary seaweed for a certain panacea on this stretch of the shore , but must go further , she found another rock , with the same fresh cipher . |
| 9 | I told Lord Dilhorne that I would ask my doctor whether in his opinion I could last the course if the task were laid upon me . |
| 10 | he told Doctor Lanyon that he could leave the room . |
| 11 | I also told John Chaplin that I would inform the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington ( the accident investigation authority in the USA ) of the situation so that there would be no question of action being delayed because of poor communications between the UK and the USA . |
| 12 | I also attach a copy of my reply , from which you will see I have told Mike Templeman that I would take up his claim that he did n't have enough information on which to base an accurate estimate with you . |
| 13 | But in private he had already told Lord Home that he should prepare to succeed him , and the ‘ customary processes ’ duly resulted in Home being chosen . |
| 14 | When the idea was broached I had told Ira Dilworth that I would sooner resign than transfer to Toronto and he agreed entirely . |
| 15 | Tell Mr Boldwood that you will drive my new cart over to Casterbridge this afternoon to fetch her body . |
| 16 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps you would tell Mr Maxwell that you will translate my questions for him and that he may speak directly to me in English . |
| 18 | I can tell Fräulein Silber that I 'll be staying with her next week then ? ’ |
| 19 | To assist progress , will my hon. Friend and the EC consider telling Mr. Shamir that they will take economic action unless Israel stops its illegal settlement programme in the occupied territories and abides by the Geneva convention , which is being systematically broken ? |
| 20 | The Americans are telling East Europeans that they should not think they can join NATO — that would break the ‘ do n't gloat ’ rule — and they do not mean to imply , either , that NATO 's security perimeter has been extended to the Soviet-Polish border . |
| 21 | We 'll have to tell Miss Brewster that I wo n't be at school . ’ |
| 22 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , next month , my hon. Friend the Member for Hyndburn ( Mr. Hargreaves ) and I shall be visiting the European Commission and Parliament — not only to tell Mr. Delors that he can not have all the money that he is asking from the British people , but to create business opportunities for our constituents ? |