Example sentences of "tell i [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As far as she was concerned , she told me over and over again , we were responsible for Dennis 's death .
2 ‘ Oh , I love , I love , ’ she told me over and over , ‘ I put nothing in my letters to you .
3 Among Indians and Pakistanis , they told me rather severely , there is no class system as there is among English people .
4 His friend Patrick Newell told me rather more about his drinking exploits .
5 ‘ Just go back to Lévy tomorrow and sell the other vase , ’ Jean-Claude told me rather conspiratorially when Félix had gone to his bucket .
6 ‘ I 'm staying , ’ he told me when I visited him last July .
7 These things I gathered from what Dorothy 's husband Leo told me when I met him in the chemist 's shop one day .
8 ‘ He told me when he gave me this one . ’
9 ‘ It is necessary to have connections , you do not understand , ’ she told me when I remarked on the fact , though even the normally impassive Czechs leapt to their feet and gallantly opened doors for her at every available opportunity .
10 Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation .
11 Hamer USA told me when I spoke to them that this is a custom option and not featured on the standard Sunburst models .
12 She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’
13 He did n't discuss it with me beforehand , just told me when he got back . ’
14 ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied .
15 She told me when I come out of prison .
16 My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid .
17 As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’
18 He told me when he was dying .
19 Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then .
20 That 's what he told me when I interviewed him that second time in Buenos Aires . ’
21 He told me when it was first seen , and I believe his story was true .
22 She told me when she came round . ’
23 One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small .
24 ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited .
25 A look at the may told me why — we were just a few miles away from Hinkley Point nuclear power station .
26 No excuses , no explanations — it was Trudy who told me why .
27 They never told me why and that really hurt .
28 ‘ Clare , you never told me why you left the convent . ’
29 He told me why .
30 Dorothy told me why .
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