Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 3 | Hallo sir , you 're calling about your daughter , Jennifer , erm I 'm sorry , I do n't really have any more information to add to what we told you on the twentieth . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 5 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 6 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 7 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 8 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 9 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me about the next morning . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was quite usual for me to take on this sort of job but it was n't usual for him to make an appointment for me and only tell me at the last minute , especially when it meant working after hours . |
| 12 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |
| 13 | Indeed some of us think we now know what bankers in the republic felt like , if you stand up to make a speech the matter has moved on before you sit down again but I must tell you of the next major problem . |
| 14 | I 'm damned if I know why I did n't tell you in the first place , back when all this started happening . |
| 15 | I was n't sure , I said , but soon , very soon ; I 'd phone and tell him within the next couple of days . |
| 16 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 17 | And he added , ‘ Please do n't send along the young pseudo-philosopher who will tell us for the umpteenth time that , of course , he fully understands the Bank 's attitude . |
| 18 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Harvey . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm telling you for the last time , Liz , get up and let's go home . |
| 21 | I 'd like you to tell me about the first time you were really aware of these symptoms , then the worst episode you can remember , and then the last … . |
| 22 | Helen do you want to tell us about the next stage ? |
| 23 | Annabel had said as much to Father Ross the last time he had come to tea , and Father Ross had looked at her sternly over his glasses , saying that if we all understood the way the Universe was run what would there be left for God to tell us on the Last Day . |