Example sentences of "[noun pl] tell [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 2 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 3 | To quench is more than to refresh although our lying , lascivious eyes tell us the two are the same . |
| 4 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 5 | The dustbag itself forms part of the filtration system , so if high filtration is important to you , be sure to look out for cleaners that have dust indicators to tell you the amount the bag contains . |
| 6 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 7 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 8 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 9 | how to distinguish a statistically significant coefficient , right , rule of thumb is that the T ratio has to be greater than two with absolute value right and the figures in square brackets next to the T ratios tell us the exact level of significance , right , er of that coefficient , right , so the incoming elasticity of demand is statistically significant from zero only at the eighty five percent level , a correspondence of fifteen percent significance that incoming the price elasticity demand , highly significant , right , significance level as given by the probabil by the probability er unit in square brackets , the timing level therefore we could be very highly confident about that coefficient okay . |
| 10 | ‘ Poniatowski told me the Party decided that silence was best . |
| 11 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 12 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 13 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 14 | Between them , my new-found friends told me the story . |
| 15 | Again unfortunately the only thing lacking was people , but perhaps in Monday we picked a bad night to sample the crack as locals tell me the place livens up as the weekend approaches . |
| 16 | It is therefore quite simply in my own best interests to tell you the truth . |
| 17 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the shooting was being treated as murder . |
| 18 | He had met commanders from both sides to tell them the killing of L/ Cpl Edwards was being treated as murder . |
| 19 | yeah it does , not too bad , I do n't think they 'll be enough nuts to tell you the truth |
| 20 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 21 | The Italian , French and Austrian industry ministers tell us the same . |
| 22 | The listeners tuned in to the German wavelengths because they found Joyce amusing unintentionally or for his anecdotes , or else because they wished to hear both sides of the argument , or even because they did not trust their own authorities to tell them the whole truth . |