Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Jesus was warning his followers about his own forthcoming death he told them not to be worried or upset but to put all their trust and confidence in him and in God . |
| 2 | Whereupon Luke lost his temper and told them not to be such fucking chauvinists . |
| 3 | Jesus told them not to weep for him but for themselves because the day would arrive when they would have enough troubles of their own . |
| 4 | He flew down to Karachi on April 27th and told them not to back Miss Bhutto 's call for fresh provincial elections . |
| 5 | ‘ Mills laughed in their faces and told them not to be so silly . ’ |
| 6 | But I told them not to , protecting her … ’ |
| 7 | It was the little amulet which told them most about the girl . |
| 8 | I told them briefly about Fibonacci and I wrote the sequence up to 8 on the blackboard . |
| 9 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 10 | He told me immediately after the Monaghan game : ‘ If you talk about winning championships then you talk about consistency , you talk about commitment , you talk about ability — you must produce all those things over the full 90 minutes . |
| 11 | ‘ Listen , ’ she said , ‘ someone told me today about this survey in a women 's magazine . |
| 12 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 13 | The old lady made me jump when she told me not to stare but to sit down and not be nervous . |
| 14 | She told me not to be embarrassed about asking Diana to do the washing up and so on . ’ |
| 15 | He told me not to be impulsive and think it over , but I sha n't stay . |
| 16 | She told me not to be silly and went and reported me . |
| 17 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you that , ’ said Sam , indignantly , ‘ and you told me not to be so stupid . ’ |
| 19 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 20 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 21 | Mum told me not to be so silly . |
| 22 | Then he added that times were hard for small farmers and told me not to be in a hurry to send in the account . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah I mean I 'm not all I 'm not , he told me not to s actually say what was wrong with him though , I ca n't say . |
| 24 | Pears said : ‘ I was stunned when the gaffer told me just before training . |
| 25 | He was n't very pleased with me , and told me off for not saying where I 'd moved to . |
| 26 | And if anyone came up and told me off for sleeping on the pavement I 'd say I was the King of England and I can sleep anywhere I like . |
| 27 | I loved St Paul 's from the first day I walked through the gates , I suppose partly because no one told me off for working too hard . |
| 28 | She told me off for doing the wrong colour there . |
| 29 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 30 | You told me before about all this money she 's supposed to have . |