Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i [modal v] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You drink this and I 'll tell her you 're here . ’ |
| 2 | A man goes into the pub , you 've all heard this but I 'll tell you it again . |
| 3 | I saw her and I , I be honest with you I hid , I be totally honest and I 'll tell her the same if I see her because I 've just found out then that they could n't do any more for me dad and I really did n't want to speak or see anybody and I sat in the canteen on my own , I just said to me mum , mum on the phone I said mum I need to do this on my own I said I 'm just gon na have a coffee in the cafeteria and I do n't know if you 've been in there but the cafeteria is all glass and she pulled up in a white van delivering something to the office , I thought oh no it 's Jenny she 's the last bleeding person I want there , I do n't mean that |
| 4 | I do n't know much but I 'll tell you what I can . ’ |
| 5 | If all the talk is about position all we might hear would be equivalent to ‘ You be number 33 ’ , ‘ OK , you be 32 and I 'll tell my neighbour to be 34 ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Drink that and I 'll tell you what to do . ’ |
| 7 | When I was a trainee my deputy fresh foods went it with me , and like he 'd sit there and he 'd say right this is how you do it at first and then he 'd let me do some and well I 'd do them and he 'd say why have you done that and I 'd tell him and then he 'd let me do it |
| 8 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
| 9 | ‘ He proved today that he is very fast but I can tell him that tomorrow is not going to be so easy , ’ said Fittipaldi , who clocked 101.472mph . |
| 10 | You 're lucky because I 'll tell you for why , you ca n't change a video if you buy . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't know about that but I can tell you the business calls he made . ’ |
| 12 | I 'm not sure that I should tell you , but seeing that you are a policeman … |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not sure whether I should tell you . |
| 14 | Well , you ca n't tell that I 'm Irish but I can tell you 're Irish . |
| 15 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 16 | And erm he he worked shifts , er the morning shift or the day shift as it was called , which was from erm , I do n't know as far as I could tell it was from six till two or something like that . |
| 17 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 18 | If you think it should be on my conscience that I take advantage of her ignorance , then it is only fair that I should tell you she has , in the past , been unfaithful to me . ’ |
| 19 | She said you could have kept this shut and I could tell her myself . |
| 20 | And we 're going to grant this protection order which is temporary permission to keep the premises open and I must tell you that there will be a lot more investigation before the order is granted that the transfer is specialist . |
| 21 | ‘ Joan , time is fleeting and I would tell you what is in my mind , ’ he said gravely . |
| 22 | Erm as near as I can tell you , I could be about er er fourteen . |