Example sentences of "i [modal v] tell you " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 2 | For I must tell you friendly in your ear , |
| 3 | Please , I 've found something , I must tell you . |
| 4 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 5 | All the same , I must tell you that my heart sank when I thought of you getting ready to serve a life sentence of accounting in that ghastly tower block at London Bridge station . |
| 6 | Oh , and incidentally , I must tell you at this point that his pre-birth environment was most carefully handled . |
| 7 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 8 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 9 | I must tell you , though , that your son could , I am sure , have injured my father , but he did n't . |
| 10 | ‘ I must tell you , this might mean surgery or some form of drugs … ’ |
| 11 | My sister 's burnt her arm , but before you come and dress it , I must tell you that we 're frightfully hard up . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's difficult to believe that I 'm still a Musketeer , but I am , and as we 've always told each other everything , I must tell you that although Mummy and Dad do such a lot for me , I 'm Perfectly miserable . |
| 13 | However , I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene . |
| 14 | Before we start our session , I must tell you about an excellent course I attended recently . |
| 15 | ‘ As an astrologer , I must tell you there is a conjunction in Uranus . ’ |
| 16 | But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins . |
| 17 | But this much I must tell you — ’ He looked around the chamber , as if expecting to see a silent listener at every corner . |
| 18 | I must tell you that the road from here is broken . ’ |
| 19 | I know that all my readers are keen to know about the knitting in Australia , but it was a working holiday , and I must tell you a little about the ‘ holiday ’ . |
| 20 | I must tell you of my latest accessory , an electronic wool winder . |
| 21 | ‘ I must tell you about our guardian angel . |
| 22 | ‘ I must tell you , Headmistress , ’ she said , ‘ that you are completely mistaken about Matilda putting a stink-bomb under your desk . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I can take any debts you might have on to my books and raise the money I need to start the business off , but I must tell you one thing , ’ Emily said , ‘ I am not rich , do n't make that mistake , I need the business to succeed or I 'm finished . ’ |
| 24 | I must tell you that I see no advantage to them in this situation . |
| 25 | I 've something I must tell you , something I should have told you before . |
| 26 | ‘ May I come in , Chris , there 's something I must tell you , ’ she said brusquely . |
| 27 | At the moment I ca n't promise you anything , but I must tell you that Yury Vladimirovich Andropov is a remarkable man . |
| 28 | My father spoke Polish and Russian and my mother spoke French — we had French people there , so I must tell you , I was really lucky , I went through the war without seeing anything horrible — I saw nothing , nothing at all , because nothing happened up there . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ My dear , I must tell you , so amUsing ’ , one whispers to the other , ‘ Monsieur *** de *** , FAR from being happily married as everyone thought , apparently spends the ENTIRE time when he 's in London clad in very ODD lederhosen in some pizzeria opposite the Knightsbridge barracks picking up little leather boys . ’ |
| 30 | So perhaps I felt I must tell you all this , now , before I know you better , so that I can tell it you without too much confusion . |