Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] tell i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will someone tell me what is going on ? ’ |
| 2 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 3 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 4 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 5 | When they are stuck , it is so much more attractive to tell them what I think than to encourage and cajole them to tell me what they think . |
| 6 | Afterwards in the pub someone told me he would probably be sent down . |
| 7 | Without looking up from her work she tells me something she has done or discovered or thought or decided during the day . |
| 8 | George , not unlike his subject , has spent about half his life in Ireland west , north and south he tells me I said why not Dublin and he says that 's what I meant |
| 9 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 10 | ‘ Resistance probably undermined by this hot climate you tell me he 's been living in . |
| 11 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 12 | This copper said the Tunnel Mob 's bin done fer a ware'ouse job in Wappin'. 'E told me they was still lookin' fer two more blokes who was involved but they do n't know who they was . ’ |
| 13 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 14 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |
| 15 | There are a lot of producers who tell me it 's extremely difficult to get British writers to do a third draft . |
| 16 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 17 | I 'd done my crying for him the day they told me he was dead . |
| 18 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 19 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 20 | I said in one breath he tells me he 's not going to erm going on holiday with Linda . |
| 21 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 22 | It was Bob who told me he booked we our union normally stay at the Claremont you see . |
| 23 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 24 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 25 | To conclude the story I do n't know who pegged the match but afterwards I talked to one of the locals who told me they never peg the stretch where I was . |
| 26 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 27 | One thing she told me I mean , Janine will tell you herself . |
| 28 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 29 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 30 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |