Example sentences of "[subord] i [modal v] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need to pretend otherwise , although I could tell you some stories … |
| 2 | I can not possibly explain to a lay audience the techniques I used to study these genes — although I can tell you they involved the use of a type of radio microscope , and considerable extremely complex computer work — the programming alone involved almost a year 's work . |
| 3 | If you 're in the market for the product of Citroen 's '70s Maserati connection , you will already know more about the model than I can tell you here . |
| 4 | He confessed frankly that he was ‘ overcome by a je ne sais quoi of discouragement and despair more than I can tell . ’ |
| 5 | There I lay , half-roasted on one side , freezing on the other , in a sort of trance , more abjectly miserable than I can tell . |
| 6 | ‘ I trust both of you , so I shall tell you . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're a big girl , now , Lyn , so I 'll tell you that you 're right . |
| 8 | Well , I ai n't one not to be frank , so I 'll tell yer . |
| 9 | But I think you 're probably doing something I 'd sympathize with , so I 'll tell you . |
| 10 | All right , the little sod 's reminding me of the truth , so I 'll tell it . ) |
| 11 | ‘ We 're well off the record now , so I 'll tell you something about Jack Scamp . ’ |
| 12 | I noticed Stuart has n't written up to say what he looks like , so I 'll tell you that he 's a cross between Paul Young and Griff Rhys-Jones . |
| 13 | so I 'm off tomorrow so I 'll tell |
| 14 | I 've made them eat everything I do , so I can tell you the food is n't tampered with . |
| 15 | I 'd be most obliged if you 'd open your door so I can tell you what this is about . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm watching it on television so I can tell you what happens . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ So I can tell you that the word is that they have not found what they were looking for . |
| 19 | My father spoke Polish and Russian and my mother spoke French — we had French people there , so I must tell you , I was really lucky , I went through the war without seeing anything horrible — I saw nothing , nothing at all , because nothing happened up there . ’ |
| 20 | I wondered if I should tell him this , and decided he might not think it funny . |
| 21 | If I should tell at a tea table in London , that I have crossed the Atlantick in an open boat , how they 'd shudder , and what a fool they 'd think me to expose myself to such danger . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Well , then I do n't know if I should tell you . ’ |
| 23 | The low style is surely recalled by the colloquial " " Hé " " given to God and St Peter as noted above , and the high by the description of the young wife in Les Trois Boçus : ( a beautiful girl So beautiful that she was a delight And if I should tell you the truth I do not think that Nature ever made Any more beautiful creature . ) |
| 24 | ‘ If you ask me what you want to know I 'll see if I can tell you . ’ |
| 25 | Some of them use super P C K and some of them use Smart Drive and buggered if I can tell the difference . |
| 26 | If I can tell you that some of the the erm what I would call direct sales people have said they think they can sell advertising and are now in another direction or still resting |
| 27 | ‘ as if I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , all right , if I must tell you , it 's the hair of a young woman I was going to marry before I met you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And Mr Cameron — it might be convenient for you as well. t , ‘ If I could tell you … |
| 30 | I quickly said no and asked Jammie if I could tell Helen what was happening . |