Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [conj] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One who did listened intently to Harry 's story and told him that the Germans inspected all sections of the vessel before sailing . |
| 2 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 3 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 4 | Any astrologer worth her salt would have predicted this man 's presence and told her to steer clear . |
| 5 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 6 | ‘ I have contacted Bruno 's lawyer and told him to tell Frank that if he wants to fight Lennox he should get in contact with us directly as I understand that Duff 's promotional contract expires in April . |
| 7 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 8 | ( Compare Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper , and many other poems where Wordsworth assimilates other people 's experiences and tells them as if they were his own . ) |
| 9 | At the height of the criticism , Law met constituency chairmen and agents at the Queen 's Hall and told them that |
| 10 | Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday . |
| 11 | Now you 'd better get out to where you are going before I change my mind and dash upstairs into Great-gran 's room and tell her where you 're going first , before you join your men pals . |
| 12 | A female voice answered Bunny 's phone and told me he was out seeing a man about a second-hand tenor sax but I could leave a message after the beep . |
| 13 | Eckstein says he may ring up Levi 's executives and tell them into which bodily part they can stick their proposal . |
| 14 | He remembered Gina 's summing-up of Eleanor 's character and told her that she only saw people as shits because she was n't woman enough to hold a man . |
| 15 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 16 | First I went to find the boy 's father and told him , ‘ There 's nothing you can do by staying here . |
| 17 | I rang the band 's manager and told him so . |
| 18 | They went to Drew 's lodging and told him their suspicions . |
| 19 | I says you 're the man told u give us the key for Black 's Row and told us that |
| 20 | Cliff Morgan , a marvellously tricky Welsh stand-off half , became a pal late in Richard 's life and told me ‘ there was no doubting his passion for the game . |
| 21 | Yvonne wakes me up after an hour 's sleep and tells me I have to leave . |
| 22 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 23 | I pressed my father 's hand and told him that I would protect his grave with my life . |
| 24 | She went to my daughter 's school and told them , which resulted in my daughter 's teacher making her a ward of court . |
| 25 | Maybe he 'd tell Jack about him anyway , then Mr Hyde would go and see the boy 's Dad and tell him to keep off private land . |
| 26 | So I got up early and went to the judge 's house and told him about the monster . |
| 27 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 28 | After the mass murderer hit the deck , I got up and , resisting the temptation to fold my left forearm over my right elbow , make a prong of the middle finger of my right hand and then lift it in Quigley 's face while telling him he was a motherfucking asshole , I went to the door . |
| 29 | So I 'll go round to Mr Bishop 's brother and tell him what 's gone on down here . |