Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They managed to see Maeda who dropped hints and told them to be circumspect . |
| 2 | ‘ We told them to be careful and do their rounds accompanied by an adult , ’ said Mr Ord . |
| 3 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 4 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 5 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 6 | I accepted Benjamin 's words but , when I questioned him on why I should wear it , he just smiled , waved a bony hand and told me to be patient . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you to be careful , ’ he snapped wrathfully . |
| 8 | She told herself to be calm . |
| 9 | She told herself to be sensible , and concentrate on the food and the others around the table , but all the same she could feel a soft , trembling excitement building inside her . |
| 10 | Comfort gave Jackson French her address and told him to be sure to call her when he got to London . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him to be sure not to fall into the wastepaper basket on his way out , ’ said Felicity , attempting to bury her parti-coloured face in her hands . |
| 12 | Monsieur Armand got angry and shouted , and Monsieur Firmin told him to be quiet . |
| 13 | Hindley had told me to be present if Edgar Linton came to visit Catherine . |
| 14 | You send your boys round with a message , tell them to be sure they deliver it , then you ask who I am ? |
| 15 | So if you 've got children looking at mortgages , just tell them to be careful and that I think really my advice would be to , for anyone starting off a new mortgage now , to definitely go for repayment , until they 've sorted out what they 're doing , because if you cash an endowment within two years , if you ca n't keep up the payments , if you lose your job , then y you get nothing back . |
| 16 | We tell them to be quiet because we want them to look at television , or say it 's too wet to go out for a walk when they are wanting to wear their new wellies . |
| 17 | If some little luxury is not available , do not replace it with something else , but tell them to be brave and suffer , like Christ Himself . |
| 18 | Tell me about being frightened when you were little , said Mr Rose . |
| 19 | Tell him to be discreet , to see what amount we could raise and how long it would take . ’ |
| 20 | Quick as lightning , someone outside makes a quip about my bed and Jancey , and she grins and tells them to be serious and asks , do n't they think of anything but sex ? |
| 21 | ‘ If there was anything that caught his ear , he would tell everyone to be quiet and listen , and then fling himself about to the music . |
| 22 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 23 | As soon as you hear the dog barking though , you must tell it to be quiet , and make it sit away from the door . |
| 24 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 25 | It 's within the congregation , Paulo was writing , not to those outside but to those dedicated baptized brothers and sisters in the trees , said you know the season that it is already the hour for you to awake so he was speaking to spiritual people , spiritually minded people and yet here he is telling them to be awake , awake from sleep or slumbers , for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became the leavers , and that 's true with us all if you came into the truth yesterday , the time that much nearer now is n't it ? |
| 26 | right hiding it and then erm later on during the party yeah taking the tape yeah and telling everyone to be quiet and listen to it . |
| 27 | Coldly she watched him pour out his careless charm , telling herself to be thankful he could sustain no deeper soul . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ The West and the Americans keep telling us to be realistic . |
| 29 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 30 | I did n't need to tell her to be careful . |