Example sentences of "[noun] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't try and be clever , ’ Markby told him , hanging determinedly on to his patience . |
| 3 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 4 | Gabi told me he used to play along to Django Reinhardt and Count Basie records — if you wanted to hear Gabby play One O'Clock Jump then you had it , he could play all that shit . |
| 5 | ‘ Kill one or two and run away , ’ Woolley told him . |
| 6 | ‘ You did a piss-poor-job on those balloons , ’ Woolley told him . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're simple , ’ Woolley told him . |
| 8 | I married Clive because Mummy told me he was suitable for me , and I had n't had a letter from Felipe for a long time … |
| 9 | Mummy told him off for saying it when I was there . |
| 10 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 11 | David said : ‘ Kylie told me she wanted our romance to end because she had a lot of pressure from work — she was always very busy . ’ |
| 12 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 13 | Corbett told them all to shut up . |
| 14 | When the two-week holiday finished , Richard told her he was going to Dijon in the centre of France . |
| 15 | She says Richard told her they would n't open Heaven 's gates for him . |
| 16 | ‘ Nobody is going to kidnap me up here , ’ Richard told him , jumping off a boulder for joy . |
| 17 | ‘ I should ask Black Will , ’ Richard told him . |
| 18 | Richard told me that his interpretation of Prince Hal caused some trouble with the director who was himself playing Falstaff and consequently wanted no serious note to disturb the comedy of the tavern scenes . |
| 19 | ‘ Richard told me that in battle a lot of unpopular officers are killed by their own men . ’ |
| 20 | Slater sighed wistfully , " Do all the things I would n't dream of doing , but do n't forget what your Uncle Richard told you . " |
| 21 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
| 22 | ‘ Viviente ’ used to be the name of the house , Kay told him . |
| 23 | Madeira is a volcanic island and the temperature stays at roughly seventy degrees all year round , ’ Kay told her , ‘ so it 's just perfect . |
| 24 | Kay told her . |
| 25 | ‘ At the top of the stairs , ’ Angie told him . |
| 26 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 27 | At this meeting the ministers asserted that their form of Church government was established by divine ordinance ; Taylor in reply told them that Presbyterians , along with Jesuits , ‘ were the greatest enemies to monarchy and most disobedient to Kings ’ , as shown by the actions of the Assembly of Scotland , and of Calvin , Knox and Buchanan . |
| 28 | Bernice told him that she and her friend , the Doctor , had crash-landed on the planet . |
| 29 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 30 | ‘ She 's at the 'ospital wiv 'im , Carrie , ’ Maisie told her . |