Example sentences of "tell [pron] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You send your boys round with a message , tell them to be sure they deliver it , then you ask who I am ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Tell him to be discreet , to see what amount we could raise and how long it would take . ’ |