Example sentences of "tell [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No filming anyone who does n't want to be filmed , and any flicker of sensationalism and you 'll be out , ’ she told them on Thursday night , her smile for once absent . |
| 2 | Well do you know , out of all the girls who work New Year 's Eve right , I told them on the night , oh I said we 'll get about forty pound for tonight wo n't I , because it 's double time and I was the only one who complained about it when I had my pay . |
| 3 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 4 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 5 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 6 | They told me on the 'phone that you were not wounded . |
| 7 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 8 | Allie told me on the phone that Ted fed her , coming in and saying , ' 'Ere , Marge , have a nice bit of fish with some bread and butter . ’ |
| 9 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 11 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 12 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 13 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 14 | As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned . |
| 15 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 16 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 17 | Douglas now your background here is mainly erm er retail face to face but I can also read into and what er this and what you told me on the phone that there 's erm quote a lot of sales as well . |
| 18 | He told me on the phone that Dawn will be leaving in a fortnight 's time and they have n't found a veterinary nurse to take her place . |
| 19 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 20 | When I first went back he told me on Saturday . |
| 21 | And she 's had two cups of coffee and a sherry she told me on Thursday ? |
| 22 | It was because the rector told me on Sunday night . |
| 23 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 24 | And Joe told me on Sunday |
| 25 | I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't . |
| 26 | You know what he told me on the way home ? |
| 27 | Nick was so thrilled with my caddying that he told everyone on television in an interview that ‘ Andy Prodger has been great . |
| 28 | I think my husband told you on the phone that buying the house over here was my idea . |
| 29 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
| 30 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |