Example sentences of "i can tell [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I can tell her owt and she 'll believe it ! ’ — Well you ca n't con me .
2 Tammuz looked at his daughter and thought , ‘ Now I can tell her .
3 " If she knows , them there 's nothing I can tell her , but the truth , " he said lightly , desperately hoping it would n't come to that .
4 I think they should get rid of the stigma in condoms , cos what frightens me is that in about ten years time my daughter will come and maybe ask if she can go on the pill and at least I can tell her no , use a condom there 's less chance of sexually transmitted diseases , but it 's my sons they wo n't come and ask .
5 He seemed to be trying to pull himself together and just as the bus appeared at the mouth of the square , he murmured : ‘ Do n't worry about Mama ; she will have understood what you were thinking , and in any case I can tell her if you 'd like . ’
6 ‘ Ring Sam , ’ suggested Tim , ‘ and tell her to get her arse over here so I can tell her about the window . ’
7 if I leave this here through , I can tell her what she want what i want her to do .
8 a sight worse then I can tell ya , he did a , a
9 ‘ Gave us a start , I can tell ye , coming on 'er like that lurking in the shadows .
10 I 'm cursing because the pigeon chooses this moment for an escape bid up the neck of my Spidersuit , plus I can tell they know I must be close but ca n't quite imagine the trans-shed escape route I 've taken .
11 I can tell them you 're experienced . ’
12 I can tell them they will never , ever return to Barnet while I am chairman if they are captured . ’
13 I run into the arms of Andy 's parents walking with the dogs near the ornamental ponds and it seems like an age before I can tell them what 's happened because my voice wo n't work and I can see the fear in their eyes and they 're asking , ‘ Where is Andrew ?
14 Where is Andrew ? ’ and eventually I can tell them and Mrs Gould gives a strange little shuddering cry and Mr Gould tells her to get the people in the house and phone for an ambulance and runs away down the path towards the river with the four Golden Labradors barking excitedly behind him .
15 Well I can tell Oh I can tell them wh In fact I would be prepared to do that .
16 Well then they wo n't talk to me they wo n't take any notice anyway , if they do , I 've got a letter I can tell them what I 'm doing .
17 I can tell him things because he 's not involved , as you and Adams are . ’
18 I can tell him how important it is for us to have a home of our own .
19 I can tell him how the Store nomes thought that his grandfather created the world .
20 If the Headmaster walks in and there 's a bit of chaos I can tell him why it 's a mess and it does n't bother me .
21 I can tell him frankly that the Government are not separatist .
22 I hesitate to correct the hon. Gentleman 's pronunciation , but in my day I fought the constituency of Islwyn which is now represented by the Leader of the Opposition , and I can tell him that it is pronounced ’ Issloin ’ .
23 I can tell him , however , that over the 1980s GDP per head in this country rose at an average rate of nearly 2 per cent .
24 As he has asked , I can tell him that , were there to be a cut of £6 billion in the defence budget , the vast majority of those jobs in Lancashire would go and factories would close .
25 I can tell him precisely what will be there .
26 I can tell him that Nottinghamshire county council 's balances are more than adequate to deal with those old people 's homes , without touching any other departmental budget .
27 I can tell him that , if we had been involved in the process during the years in which this Government were involved , proper priority would have been given to the very stipulations that we laid down some time ago about convergence , the accountability of institutions and the need for a change in regional and structural funding — as well as several other considerations , some of which are now contained in article 2 of the treaty .
28 That represents sixty percent of secondary schools and seventeen percent of primary schools and despite the er endeavour to which he refers of Essex county council , I can tell him that the latest school to decide to hold a ballot on such status is Notley High School , Braintree .
29 The er honourable gentleman 's question appears to be founded on a rather curious premise , er what has what has happened what has happened to electricity prices is that have fallen six percent in real terms over the last two financial years and if he wants to know another interesting statistics I can tell him .
30 Thirdly I can tell him that eighty percent of prescribed items are now free of charge compared with sixty percent in nineteen seventy nine .
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