Example sentences of "but tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 2 | Judge Peter Greenwood remanded Gillespie in custody for medical reports , but told him , ‘ I do not want you to think for one moment that you are not facing a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 3 | She politely thanked him , but told him they were n't welcome . |
| 4 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 5 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |
| 6 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 7 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 8 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 9 | Corbett had no choice but told her from the beginning of the events at Godstowe . |
| 10 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 11 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 12 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 13 | But Told you you put put ten , I put jack queen in s same suit and close and everything . |
| 14 | Santerre hastened to open it but told us not to bring any torches in . |
| 15 | But tell her too : never again . ’ |
| 16 | But tell her she 'll need to watch because that 's the Voltarol |
| 17 | ‘ My compliments to Sir John but tell him Master Daunbey would appreciate his presence here in the courtyard . ’ |
| 18 | Yeah , but tell him I went to Hoebury in the afternoon . |
| 19 | Acknowledge that today is Wednesday , but tell them that you bought it on Tuesday and it is bad and you want a replacement . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yeah but tell them to clean up after them . |
| 22 | But tell me , the English lady who sits with the peculiar gloves drinking sherry wine with your colleague . |
| 23 | ‘ Here you are talking and holding forth , ’ says the latter , ‘ but tell me this : are you going to kill the old woman yourself ? ’ |
| 24 | But tell me who those men were , walking out . |
| 25 | ‘ But tell me about you and your family . ’ |
| 26 | But tell me why , now ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But tell me , gentlemen , ’ he continued , ‘ you can hardly blame a Frenchman for hating the Germans , can you ? |
| 28 | ‘ But tell me , was there much of value in the handbag ? |
| 29 | But tell me , ’ he added . |
| 30 | But tell me , Master Physician , for I see you are an astute man , what happened to the two squires , the valets of the chamber , who accompanied the King ? ’ |