Example sentences of "[adv] tell [pron] [adv] it " in BNC.
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1 | I can only tell you how it was for me . |
2 | Yet the medical authorities would not dearly state this , nor did the police believe that they had a case capable of being taken further , not least because the abused woman could not tell us how it had happened . |
3 | Then hurriedly , ‘ If you 'll just tell me where it is I can manage with the crutch . ’ |
4 | ‘ If you 'll just tell me where it is I can manage by myself , thank you . ’ |
5 | We will just tell you how it works . |
6 | Get them to say what you 've just said and and erm then she 'll like tell them why it 's chill out man , not because they 're cold but you know |
7 | I ca n't really tell you why it 's just I do n't like the do n't like the idea of children going round er begging for treats , treats money whatever it might be . |
8 | They ca n't tell me where it comes , pardon ? |
9 | The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it . |
10 | I 've got an amaryllis , that high , but I could n't tell you high it is in metres . |
11 | Textbooks may of course also include original ideas , so the distinction becomes blurred ( especially where a textbook does n't tell you where it is offering contentious interpretations ) . |
12 | Sha n't tell you how it 's done of course . |
13 | ‘ When we walked down that ward I ca n't tell you how it felt , ’ said Mrs Rogers . |
14 | But er when just before I left the polishing which was in nineteen thirty eight , er they were bringing in a lot of cellu it 's all th a lot of all this modern stuff is what they call cellulose , but I could n't tell you how it 's done , it 's done with a spray . |
15 | I ca n't even tell you so it 's in my time plan , I 'll show you . |
16 | Well there 's been speculation about that , but no nobody can actually tell us how it began but it 's it 's easy enough to imagine how it began , I think . |