Example sentences of "[prep] me [conj] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 2 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 3 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 4 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 5 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 6 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 7 | Then you must come over and stay with me and tell me everything that 's happened . |
| 8 | A waiver scheme allows individual families to get in touch with me and to tell me if the levying of the charge will erm will mean particular financial hardship for them , and we 've had experience of this . |
| 9 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 10 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 11 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 12 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 13 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 14 | I suggested they try again and this time ask for the man who had signed my receipt , and please — come back to me and tell me what they say . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll be standing at a bus stop and people will come up to me and tell me what they do and do n't like about fashion today ’ , he says . |
| 16 | Will you open up to me and tell me what it is that 's made you hide your heart away for so long ? ’ |
| 17 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 18 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 19 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 20 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |
| 21 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 22 | They laughed at me and told me my fingers were no use for that work , which was true . |
| 23 | Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’ |