Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 2 | With a firm grip on my hand , she pulled me away from a display of hi-tech gadgets and told me I was not going to be a millionairess . |
| 3 | If you are , then give me a ring and tell me why . |
| 4 | It was here that Tony gave me my ring and told me that my funghi marinati was the best he 'd ever had in spite of him getting an earful of it . |
| 5 | For all this however , he has an iron nerve and told me , ‘ I have never been scared but when I go out for the National I get a tingling sensation . |
| 6 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 7 | She sits on my lap , looks at the photograph and tells me her dream . |
| 8 | The midwife took one look at me — the head was already on its way out — attached a fetal monitor and told me to push . |
| 9 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
| 10 | ‘ Mr Lloyd George came … and informed me that he is able to form an administration and told me the proposed names of his colleagues , ’ the King wrote in his diary . |
| 11 | I do n't believe she heard me because she yawned , handed me the key and told me to hang it round my neck so that no one could take it from me . |
| 12 | Look out the window and tell me what you see . |
| 13 | Now , Miss Adams , cut out the comedy act and tell me where he is . ’ |
| 14 | He was very brave about the whole thing , crawling up to his feet and telling me it did n't hurt a bit . |
| 15 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 16 | Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor . |
| 17 | One of them is a teacher of deaf children at St Mary 's and she loved the old schoolroom at the museum and told me that her class were doing a project on Northern Ireland and she must bring them here to see it all . |
| 18 | I asked the dragon-lady if anyone had come in who was n't an owner or a groom , and she bridled like a thin turkey and told me that she had conscientiously checked every visitor against her list of bona fide owners , and only they had been admitted . |
| 19 | He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too . |
| 20 | Later Fred sits down to play Gameboy tennis but tells me , ‘ Say I 'm playing Sega and … ’ — he halts a moment , thinking sponsorship — ‘ … wearing Levi 's and a John Richmond jacket . ’ |
| 21 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 22 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 23 | Take five minutes and tell me what it is you want me to do for Lynx . |
| 24 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 25 | If it were , the day would come when the man behind the shining table lamp would toss a fountain pen in my direction and tell me to sign a piece of paper , and I would say , what the hell , why not ? |
| 26 | She said she had been assaulted by a taxi driver and told me : ‘ It was n't my fault ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 28 | ‘ But the boss used to give me some right stick and told me I was no good to him lying in bed or on the treatment table . |
| 29 | ‘ I will be holding surgeries at Netherton Park Community Centre so people can air their views and tell me if there is a problem , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Chatterton climbed down to the deck and told me that Robin-Anne had eaten a huge breakfast . |