Example sentences of "tell [pron] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |
| 2 | The PCAS has accused UCCA of poaching after the universities ' system approached polytechnics and told them it would delay the deadline for its 1993 handbook by two weeks to allow them to join . |
| 3 | The SWWA told them it was safe to drink . |
| 4 | Chapman told them it was not a decision that could be made by the club . |
| 5 | Macari threw the corroding garment down in full view of the club 's directors he told them it reflected the state of their club . |
| 6 | Another indicated the back of a diner and told them it was Al Capone . |
| 7 | Being over 200 miles from town , I told them it was scarcely worthwhile coming for less than three days — preferably more ; so they did . |
| 8 | With one-upmanship , I told them it was near Lebanon , Smith County , Kansas , but since then have been told I am wrong . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them it was a murder and all they wanted to know was my name … |
| 10 | I told them it was urgent , but I do n't think your van does you on Tuesdays . |
| 11 | ‘ I told them it was my fault — it was n't the driver 's fault . ’ |
| 12 | Head of environmental services , Mr Keith Atkinson , told them it would cost around £200,000 . |
| 13 | phoning now seen it in the paper we told them it was sold . |
| 14 | She told me it was your smile that did it . |
| 15 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 16 | ‘ Caroline told me it was cassoulet , ’ he announced . |
| 17 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 18 | Charlie told me it was n't nothing for them to get through twenty nicker poking about in the shops . |
| 19 | ‘ He told me it was all fixed up . |
| 20 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 21 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 22 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 23 | I have called several dealers and dumps in Holland and England but they all told me it 's hard to find a hard top for these vehicles . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me it would be easier to get to the underground railway from the side street . |
| 25 | He seemed rather surprised and told me it was painful , but gave in . |
| 26 | Uncle Bean , leaning on a gate watching with the resident farmer , said , ‘ They told me it was out of racing . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ At first I thought it was a ploy — a ruse designed to panic me into running to her , but then something told me it was not . |
| 28 | Michael Brown , president of Ilkley and District Chamber of Trade and Commerce in 1986 , told me it was difficult nowadays to get up a trade team as the number of small local traders has declined . |
| 29 | Somebody told me it was handmade but I did n't know anything about it for years . |
| 30 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |