Example sentences of "tell him to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comfort gave Jackson French her address and told him to be sure to call her when he got to London . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Monsieur Armand got angry and shouted , and Monsieur Firmin told him to be quiet . |
| 4 | Tell him to be discreet , to see what amount we could raise and how long it would take . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |