Example sentences of "the [noun] tell i " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this period of uncertainty , Jean-Claude was as anxious as I. He never missed the opportunity to tell me how different his life had become since I moved in with him : he was happy now , he could work . |
| 2 | ‘ The Prince tells me your woman is French ? ’ |
| 3 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
| 4 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 5 | I lumbered to the loo and then rang the hospital excitedly — the midwife told me to come in . |
| 6 | Why was n't the computer telling me the answer ? |
| 7 | The computer told me its name . |
| 8 | Well the clerk tells me it has n't arrived . |
| 9 | It seems to me , racking my memory that the use classes order post dates and therefore the introduction of class B one which was the main thing in the new use classes order , the chairman tells me it was nineteen eighty eight . |
| 10 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 11 | The DoE tell me in a letter that they are free from indemnity . |
| 12 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 13 | Er another officer in the , in the in the building told me . |
| 14 | But if this was a positive factor to hold on to , the story told me more . |
| 15 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 16 | Yet when I take a taxi back to the club , the driver tells me that the Indians will be getting it in the neck soon . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm seeing my way right now , ’ the driver told me , as he came out of the bar , followed by the landlady . |
| 18 | When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material . |
| 19 | ‘ Those mountains are in Ulster , ’ the driver told me . |
| 20 | The rusty taxi-cab clattered down the spine of the city and the driver told me what was wrong with Cuba , and we went past the silent skyscrapers , kosher pizzerias , glass-fronted banks , bagel factories , polish gymnasiums with belt-vibrators for rent , pharmacies selling love-potions and roach-killers , and all-night supermarkets where frail young men were buying canned rattlesnake . |
| 21 | Oh no I keep it at the side of my bed with the , the strip telling me |
| 22 | Surprisingly I was the oldest in the race at nineteen , so the statisticians tell me . |
| 23 | One of the problems that the college told me about is that school children are leaving school with more computer literacy than the university teachers , so university teachers are having to run hard simply to keep up with the people they are teaching . |
| 24 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 25 | Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church . |
| 26 | The Agent tells me apologetically about the superstitious fears of these simple people . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 28 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 29 | My man in the sombrero tells me of an incident at Goldsmith 's Mexican estate two weeks ago which has severed relations for the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |