Example sentences of "[coord] i [modal v] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 2 | Go and put away your work and tidy your drawer immediately , or I 'll tell Miss Scatcherd ! ’ |
| 3 | Tell 'em — or I 'll tell 'em when I get back to the States — I 'm pulling . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me go , or I will tell my father , Mr Frankenstein . |
| 5 | ‘ I can shut up OR I can tell you when the Ship is going to arrive . |
| 6 | Or I could tell the story behind the papers , a chronology in which I described the sequence of experiments as we actually conducted them . |
| 7 | And I 'll tell you another thing , you 're too much of a liability . |
| 8 | ‘ Drink up , ’ said the darts club wit , ‘ and I 'll tell you the one about the girl who married the sailor . ’ |
| 9 | Walk along and I 'll tell you about it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Come now , pet , let's kiss and make up and I 'll tell you about him . |
| 11 | ‘ Let me down and I 'll tell yer . ’ |
| 12 | I 've heard the Reason , and I 'll tell it you . |
| 13 | ‘ Then you 'd better sit down and I 'll tell you all about it right from the beginning ’ |
| 14 | I will keep in touch , Charles dear , and I 'll tell Donald you called . ’ |
| 15 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 16 | If all the talk is about position all we might hear would be equivalent to ‘ You be number 33 ’ , ‘ OK , you be 32 and I 'll tell my neighbour to be 34 ’ . |
| 17 | And I 'll tell you why . |
| 18 | ‘ You could make it to the end now , and I 'll tell old Sam you 've done a length . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You drink this and I 'll tell her you 're here . ’ |
| 20 | And I 'll tell them why I took a woman , and that she 's good to me . |
| 21 | And I 'll tell you something else while I 'm on : if I were you I 'd go easy on the women . |
| 22 | Jacko appeals to the meeting to endorse Gomez 's nomination for promotion and not to practise a de facto colour bar : ‘ You 're going to cut your own bloody throats and I 'll tell you for why . |
| 23 | Suppose you take me down to the Brownies ' Bridge sometime — perhaps tomorrow , as you are on holiday from school — and I 'll tell you about my Brownies . ’ |
| 24 | — And I 'll tell you to stuff it ! |
| 25 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |
| 26 | And I 'll tell you , sooner or later it 's going to occur to someone you could be useful ; useful enough to make it worthwhile taking out that dog . |
| 27 | ‘ Besides , th'know mine now , and I 'll tell thee my trade like thee asked . |
| 28 | And I 'll tell you something else . |
| 29 | Listen to me and I 'll tell you what happened . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't agree , and I 'll tell you why : because there 's always a new generation who finds those ideas fresh and new to them . |