Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 2 | I wrote back , Paz said , I told him , Dada dead as dodo eat your hat . |
| 3 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
| 4 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
| 5 | Goldberg 's face when I told him , he wrote . |
| 6 | I told him , Between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
| 7 | I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it . |
| 8 | I told you , between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
| 9 | I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out . |
| 10 | You 'd have got better anyway , I told him . |
| 11 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 12 | I told him all that left me cold . |
| 13 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 14 | It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her . |
| 15 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 16 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 17 | It may not be ready in time , I told her , there 's still a long way to go . |
| 18 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 19 | I do n't live in London , I told him . |
| 20 | Besides , I told him , I like sewers . |
| 21 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
| 22 | I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent . |
| 23 | It does n't concern me , I told him . |
| 24 | Again I told him why . |
| 25 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
| 26 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
| 27 | ‘ They 're not my guests , ’ I told her . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , like I told the foreign gentleman , there was dancing in the sitting room , and this Mrs Heatherington-Scott she was dancing with Mr Merrivale . ’ |
| 29 | I told him they danced very intimate-like , with her twigging his ear and whispering in it , and dancing closer and closer . |
| 30 | Bob blushed at his unaccustomed prominence , but said promptly : ‘ Four , like I told the foreign gentleman . ’ |