Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zoe wants I got ta tell her |
| 2 | I said I got ta tell you something . |
| 3 | ( I felt like telling him those bastards had aged me by years , but I suppose we have to keep up a brave face . ) |
| 4 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 5 | ‘ I rang that night shelter you were at this morning and the girl I spoke to told me you were on your way . |
| 6 | Many other women I spoke to told me that for protection from racial attacks it was essential to have Asian neighbours . |
| 7 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |
| 8 | Many of the Muslim women I spoke to told me that their husbands were unfaithful to them usually with white women ( see for example p. 123 of ‘ Sisters in Struggle ’ ) . |
| 9 | Well go on then , what else you got ta tell me ? |
| 10 | Oh wait , let's see what you got ta tell me today . |
| 11 | Then afterwards you got ta tell us . |
| 12 | She insisted on telling me her entire life story , regardless of whether I wanted to listen or not . ’ |
| 13 | She thought of telling him that a note from their landlady , contemplating the disappearance of her husband forever , had gone , vanished , and just who , did he think , was likely to have taken it ? |
| 14 | She felt like telling him who she was and what she had done , only he would n't be interested , he 'd be embarrassed . |
| 15 | Please open the door , she felt like telling him . |
| 16 | And she responded by telling them she was no tycoon , just a wife and mother with an unusually clear view of the world . |
| 17 | The other night cos I did n't like you wrote about telling Gwyneth about I do n't like the Chronicles of Narnia . |
| 18 | He toyed with telling her a few home truths , but then decided it would do no good . |
| 19 | Later , from South Africa , he wrote to thank me for this advice , but now he reciprocated by telling me , with great gentleness , that I should not go on hoping , as he himself had searched the P.O.W. lists , and Leslie 's name was not on any of them . |
| 20 | When it came to telling Elizabeth about Beth , how she ‘ seemed happy enough ’ , Tilly prayed it was so . |
| 21 | Now standing commandingly in the aisle , he delighted in telling stories about the city . |
| 22 | He began by telling the machine all about Zambia , to which it responded sagely , ‘ In humanity 's attempt to obtain the best of both genders , it appears to have harvested the worst . ’ |
| 23 | He began by telling her about his bid for G.W. Fashions and the antagonism it had sparked among his rivals . |
| 24 | He finished by telling Ho about the terrified middle-aged couple and the men who had covered the Worm 's tracks — men headed by Ray Shepherd . |
| 25 | He decided against telling Georgina about his meeting with Muldoon . |
| 26 | He thought of telling her that he was a friend but friends did n't dive in through the front door ; they did n't have blood on their wrists nor cuts all over their faces ; they did n't have a rope burn round their necks and they wore shirts , at least until they were properly introduced . |
| 27 | He felt like telling the old folk it was not New Year 's Eve , but he doubted if they would believe him . |
| 28 | He concluded by telling Scott that there was no need to hurry with the revised elevations as he would only be asking Parliament to vote sufficient for the foundations during the present session . |