Example sentences of "tell i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ate another Danish ; mother told me everybody else was fine , back home . |
| 2 | Hawkins said : ‘ Van Gelder told me nothing of this . ’ |
| 3 | The room told me nothing . |
| 4 | He never told me nothing , ’ I blurted . |
| 5 | ‘ Maurice told me nothing of it , you know . |
| 6 | Francis told me nothing of his intentions so I can only guess . ’ |
| 7 | bloody told me nothing , go for it Dave . |
| 8 | You told me nothing . |
| 9 | She told me what they had said — that it is a loss of honour , ‘ It is disrespectful to your husband . ’ |
| 10 | A friend who used to visit them occasionally told me what conditions were like : |
| 11 | When we finished decorating the tree , we stuck all the prezzies underneath and Annie told me what she reckoned they was . |
| 12 | ‘ While I was with her , ’ I said , ‘ she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her — always , in every way , all your married life . ’ |
| 13 | The expert told me what colours to wear , and now I buy clothes only in purple , pink , grey and blue . |
| 14 | ‘ Is n't it about time you told me what really happened back at your flat in Radnor Walk ? ’ |
| 15 | Then turning to them , she exclaimed , ‘ You never told me what you wanted for the hats ? ’ |
| 16 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 17 | It was only much later , in 1981 , that he told me what had happened . |
| 18 | They talked to me about their past and told me what sort of things they like doing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ In the second week , I knew what I wanted from the allowed foods , my body told me what I needed . |
| 20 | ‘ When Slaughter told me what had transpired , I had the lass brought here to my lodgings , and had a physician take a look at her . ’ |
| 21 | That night in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary I saw Moira , with five cracked ribs and cuts over her eye and on her leg , and she told me what had happened . |
| 22 | I completed another tour of the mill and cottage , this time with Nigel in tow , trying to sound as objective as I could , as if I , too , saw mere possibilities , but as our tour progressed I could see that Nigel had warmed to it almost as much as I. He pointed out some ‘ interesting features ’ that I had missed , such as some of the wooden working parts of the mill machinery set high in the plastered walls , and told me what they had originally been used for . |
| 23 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 25 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 26 | Some man came round , and James phoned me afterwards , told me what he 'd said . |
| 27 | My notes told me what was to happen next , but my brain no longer knew how to move plot and people forward . |
| 28 | She then told me what she said she had already told the police and that there was no harm in telling me , to wit that Froggy had given her nearly two thousand quid to do up the kitchen and bathroom . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ No I 'd prefer it if you told me what you like about it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Told me what ? ’ |