Example sentences of "tell me [conj] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman told me that they normally like you to book a few days in advance so that you have some time to think it over in case you wanted to change your mind . |
| 2 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 3 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 4 | She said in a small voice , ‘ She told me that you only cared for the vines . |
| 5 | ‘ When I went to old Abuelo Freitas , Maria told me that you sometimes worried too much about him — that you did n't understand that he only wanted to be left alone . |
| 6 | One friend told me that he regularly got 35 m.p.g. from a petrol-engined Land Rover . ) |
| 7 | She told me that he just had time to wrap a small gift of appreciation . |
| 8 | He told me that he too had no particular worries about community care and that the provision of residential care was very good . |
| 9 | ‘ Sarah told me that he never went out without several pounds in his wallet and , in any case , he should have had the week 's housekeeping money on him . |
| 10 | Junack told me that he personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship by placing explosive charges in the cooling water intakes and to open the seacocks , and that he and others had done this ; and this was confirmed by an engine-room rating named Werner Lust who stayed on in England after his release as a prisoner-of-war . |
| 11 | Letterman told me that he once saw Steffi Graf playing tennis at Wimbledon . |
| 12 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 13 | Hashmat Ara Begum , a community worker in the Borough of Camden told me that she too had come across the most contemptuous attitudes among Health Visitors . |
| 14 | She told me that she actually attacked Huston and hit him because of his treatment of Monty : |
| 15 | ‘ The told me that they alone had cracked the system ; they said only they could fix up proper contracts with local authorities on behalf of their clients . |
| 16 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 17 | Er I do n't know who by as Giles wo n't tell me but he definitely knows the two people that 've laid her . |
| 18 | You will probably tell me that you never had 1,000 farthings of your own in the world , but , prisoner , that makes no difference . |
| 19 | She has n't had any more visions but she was telling me that she sometimes has dreams . |
| 20 | One of you was talking to me at er lunchtime and telling me that he recently bought er er a C D of Dvorak 's Slavonic dances and when he played it it turned out to be some country and western music . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you telling me that you still suspect him ? ’ |
| 22 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 23 | She just come to tell me that she really wants to take him out . |
| 24 | I shall not force you to tell me if you still consider it would be contrary to your country 's interests to do so . ’ |