Example sentences of "[conj] she [modal v] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked down Chestnut Drive , and as she picked a leaf off a privet hedge here , and ran her hand along a row of railings there , she thought that it was not so bad after all , and that she would tell them about it : they always said , when accused of indifference , that they were interested , so she would jolly well try to make them show a bit of their interest . |
| 2 | She suddenly wished that she had Finn here so that she could tell him a few more home truths . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 5 | But she would write and tell him how fine the flower-beds were and how across the road the sea rushed into the golden shore and she would tell him how much she missed him . |
| 6 | I 'll tell Alison the accountant then , and she 'll tell me what she 's sold and how many contracts we 've booked and but it 's done in front of everybody else while everybody , why everybody else who 's on the phone . |
| 7 | Now , erm Rose is secretary and she 's had things through from er British Section Headquarters and she 'll tell us what she 's got there . |
| 8 | we 'll phone Chris and Keith and ask them the best time for us to go when the kids are not there , and she 'll tell us |
| 9 | He rubbed his fingers through his hair and she could tell he was anxious . |
| 10 | But er and then when television come her mother was sat over it all times and she used to tell me about going to pictures . |
| 11 | And she used to tell me about her burying it with her father you see , the sacks of malt so that he did n't find it . |
| 12 | Oh it would have been half as small , and she used to tell us grand stories with them setting off in the morning with their a bottle of milk and their , it 's like a pi with them , to keep the fire going to keep them warm and everything . |
| 13 | Well not in the herring fishing but er there was also a a salt fish kind of processing place out in the Hens And me mother work at it and she used to tell us about I supposed they 'll be not rubber boats in that d days . |
| 14 | And she used to tell us like and and things like that . |
| 15 | I though we 'd sit on her step , like we always did , and share out the Cadbury 's , and I 'd tell her about our school and she 'd tell me all about the nuns and everything , but when she opened the door she just stood there , all clean and different in her stiff long uniform still , and said , " I ca n't possibly play out tonight . |
| 16 | I used to tease her about being so house-proud and she 'd tell me how her Aunt Rosina brought her up to do everything just so . ’ |
| 17 | Oi asked Miki from Lush if she would tell me about the birds and the bees but instead she twatted me with a flange pedal . |
| 18 | She wondered if she should tell him about Amy 's having been a nurse . |
| 19 | And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ? |
| 20 | She could n't read or nothing cos she was too little , but she used to tell me stories — you know , made up ones like . |
| 21 | At 15 she had once to be carted from the links of Gullane having had too much to drink , but she will tell you that that had nothing to do with the pressures of competition , rather that she was merely going through a rebellious streak . |
| 22 | He leaned on her , not wholly unconscious , but she could tell he did n't know what was happening to him . |
| 23 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 24 | ‘ Since she can tell us no more , I will give the order for the embalmers to take her . ’ |
| 25 | Watching him stride away , hurt and humiliated by the shocking scene he had just witnessed , she wondered whether she should tell him her secret . |
| 26 | She was n't sure whether she should tell him the sordid details . |
| 27 | He went to the kitchen and asked if the nurse would be so kind as to wait , just a few moments , and he was out of the room before she could tell him how tight her schedule was . |
| 28 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 29 | But the old woman fell back and died before she could tell me more . ’ |
| 30 | It was the last place in the world she would ever have chosen for a tryst , as she would tell him when he turned up . |