Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] tell [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |
| 2 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 3 | Nine years have passed since my divorce and I tell myself the half-forgotten betrayals and deceits are old news . |
| 4 | Different respondents may use different frames of reference unless we tell them the purpose of the rating procedure . |
| 5 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 6 | And she called me later , and said , ‘ Excuse me , but I just talked to Fred and I told him the story , and he 's invited you to tea tomorrow at his house . ’ |
| 7 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 8 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 9 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 10 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 11 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 12 | Oh , would n't I like to be a fly on the wall when you tell her the latest ! |
| 13 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 14 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 15 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 16 | you see We was working together and you know a a few benches from each other and of course as I told you the the lads worked with a man . |
| 17 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 18 | I give you the input and you tell me the answer . |