Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To save my suffering Papa tells me he is dead for sure . |
| 2 | ‘ Ron Fenton may seem an obvious choice to an outsider , ’ he said , ‘ but my inside knowledge tells me he would not be the players ' choice . |
| 3 | Wahlitits prophesied his own death , and the warrior Lone Bird intoned : ‘ My shaking heart tells me trouble and death will overtake us if we make no hurry through this land ! ’ |
| 4 | My extended senses told me that it was vast . |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend tell us what action is being taken to improve the position in respect of new staff and new facilities and any benefits that might be derived from the new contractual arrangements ? |
| 6 | Bearing in mind that Labour Members have made many promises without costing them , will my hon. Friend tell us whether they have made promises about the environment in which they claim to be interested ? |
| 7 | I advise my hon. Friend to tell his constituent that his experience is not unusual and that it is a tribute to the service that is available from the national health service . |
| 8 | ‘ My personal knowledge tells me differently . |
| 9 | Between them , my new-found friends told me the story . |
| 10 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 11 | My veterinary colleagues tell me one of the main dangers with such large dogs is not that they injure themselves ( through overexercising before their skeletons can carry their weight ) but that their diets are over-supplemented , particularly with excessive calcium , which damages bone growth and hinders development . |
| 12 | My sixth sense told me to stay here . |
| 13 | ‘ My Chinese counterpart told me his 11-month old daughter used to cry when he got home on Saturday nights because she did n't recognise him ! ’ |
| 14 | But my clinical experience tells me that for many of you , there 's no choice — other than the possibility of celibacy — for as you 've developed , you 'll have gradually realised that your sexual orientation is homosexual and that you can no more change that than the colour of your eyes . |
| 15 | ‘ My own eyes tell me that their ship is gone , sir . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And my own instincts tell me that they escaped ! ’ fumed Fakrid . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't look quite so much like myself any more , ’ one of my closest friends told me about her decision to colour her grey . |
| 18 | My eldest brother told me to keep still . |
| 19 | Clearly the RAF would be happy to show me their trophy-winners — while my cunning instincts told me that this would be the best place to do food-tasting ! |
| 20 | It has been a rhetorical device , then — necessary because ( my literary friends tell me ) science proceeds by just such rhetoric — but rhetorical nonetheless . |
| 21 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 22 | Out of print , my local stockist told me — though I sneaked a look at one owned by a venerable AC member on a meet in the Dauphiné . |
| 23 | At breakfast , my 1950s landlord told me that Ballinasloe Fair , County Galway , was being held that week . |
| 24 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 25 | Having analysed the calorific value of every type of food under the sun , they then try to organise your entire life around their rigid schedules telling you exactly what to eat and what to avoid . |
| 26 | ‘ Far from it ! ’ she said thickly , but her racing pulses told him a different story , and she knew her desire for him was growing stronger with each moment they spent together . |
| 27 | No wonder the Government of the day tried to conceal that it had spent public money on bringing some dotty lady down from her high table to tell us what it is to want what we want . |
| 28 | Her smug silence told him he was wrong . |
| 29 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 30 | With her conscious mind telling her what to say and do , her emotions rebelled and she heard herself say something quite contradictory to its orders : |