Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] tell you " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . ’ |
| 32 | Yes , and Isabel must know , must surely remember it , Isabel who had had such a well-developed , careful , private system for the storing , ordering , labelling , arrangement and organisation of things , whose books were in a certain line , so that she could tell you at once , and without ever having to get up , what sat next to what and where Lewis and Short or Cassell 's French-English would be found , were she to consent to your borrowing them because you had lost your own . |
| 33 | There will be more coverage of what the industry is doing , rather than what the HCIMA is doing , although we will tell you what we , as the professional body of the industry , think about it . |
| 34 | So what I was gon na say was , that , that partic , partic er participant observations typically involves actually living with the , the study for a fair amount of time , so erm although they might tell you a pack of lies initially you can actually observe what they 're like , what they do and see whether they fit what they 've said and as time goes on you ha hope to develop some kind of rapport with them so that they might totally understand . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'm glad to see you 're putting those binoculars to good use , ’ Windeler said , indicating the Zeiss that Schaffer was still holding , ‘ but I doubt that they 'll tell you much . |
| 36 | Try to get his movies from your local video store , and you will find that they will tell you as much as this book . |
| 37 | Well if you read that it 'll tell you exactly what will happen . |
| 38 | They 've done most of them are I mean the wo certainly the ones on the little little boat trips and that , I mean , they have all it does is that it 'll tell you there 's some fish about , I mean , it does n't |
| 39 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 40 | And I 'll tell you another thing , you 're too much of a liability . |
| 41 | ‘ Drink up , ’ said the darts club wit , ‘ and I 'll tell you the one about the girl who married the sailor . ’ |
| 42 | Walk along and I 'll tell you about it . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Come now , pet , let's kiss and make up and I 'll tell you about him . |
| 44 | ‘ Then you 'd better sit down and I 'll tell you all about it right from the beginning ’ |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | And I 'll tell you why . |
| 47 | And I 'll tell you something else while I 'm on : if I were you I 'd go easy on the women . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . ’ |
| 50 | — And I 'll tell you to stuff it ! |
| 51 | ‘ Let me in for Chris ' sake and I 'll tell you . ’ |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | And I 'll tell you something else . |
| 54 | Listen to me and I 'll tell you what happened . |
| 55 | ‘ 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 . |
| 56 | Speak to me and I 'll tell you what 's what ; which neck pickup best suits which bridge pickup ; which pickups most complement the music you play . |
| 57 | But I do n't worry about being a loser and I 'll tell you why . |
| 58 | I think they were sent for their tea by Billingsley and his friends , and I 'll tell you something more , no one will ever know what happened to them , so forget it ! |
| 59 | But it 's kind of a shame , because I 'm only one element of blackness that you can see on television , and I 'll tell you , if I 'd been a kid and seen someone like me on telly , I 'd be a hell of a lot happier about the way I am in this world . ’ |
| 60 | And I 'll tell you something else — ’ she paused , went to the oven , took out a tin holding roast potatoes , flicked them over expertly and put the tin back in the oven before she continued , ‘ She wo n't be long in that school , she 's a way ahead ; and you know what ? ’ |