Example sentences of "[noun] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days later Gwenellen told me he had attended his first follow-up clinic two days previously . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Richard told me that in battle a lot of unpopular officers are killed by their own men . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But Maisie told me there were gas masks in some depots ready to be given out . |
| 9 | She used to be one of that Rajneesh lot , she always lives in communes , and Linda told me she was looking for somewhere . |
| 10 | When I came round again , I could not see and Jorge told me my father was dead . ’ |
| 11 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 12 | On the fifth , and top shelf , my books told me stories about a girl with long hair , a strange little man with a funny name and two children and a witch . |
| 13 | Ferguson explained : ‘ Lawrie told me that under a new regulation Ince must join the squad anyway . |
| 14 | Sharmi told me : |
| 15 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 16 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 17 | ‘ The vice-minister of the atomic energy industry told me a nuclear plant was being built to cope with the power shortage , ’ said the defector . |
| 18 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 19 | The card told me the rest . |
| 20 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Jeff told me you promised your parents that you 'd treat them to a holiday this autumn in celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary — but that now you 're starting to worry about how you 're going to pay for it . |
| 22 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 23 | And that was also why I did n't leave you a note explaining what we were up to as Jeff told me to . |
| 24 | And how often those opinions can really surprise us ; a young woman patient who had four hearty older brothers told me that , although they always treated her well , she always felt completely insignificant beside them . |
| 25 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 26 | My brothers told me I 'd end up killing someone . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well . |
| 29 | ‘ I mean , this is all stuff that Andy told me , so it could be just a story , but I 'd bet that up to that point it 's all true . |
| 30 | Mr Singh told me that one of his brothers-in-law had told them it was a school for mentally handicapped . |