Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We told them to be careful and do their rounds accompanied by an adult , ’ said Mr Ord . |
| 2 | They managed to see Maeda who dropped hints and told them to be circumspect . |
| 3 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 4 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 5 | And with that he bent over and lifted me to my feet and told me to be off , which I did not need to be told twice to do . |
| 6 | He told me to be a good girl for Mum , and that he would give me some money to go to the pictures . |
| 7 | It was a costly venture , of course , since Tonga is a very great distance from almost everywhere ; but a glossy journal owned by an extremely wealthy New Yorker thought that a visit to ‘ The Island Where Time Starts ’ could make an agreeable tale , therefore handed me a sheaf of air tickets and a small sum in hard currency and told me to be on my way . |
| 8 | He told me to be extra careful what I said to you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm here because my husband told me to be here , Shih Bergson . ’ |
| 10 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 11 | ‘ But sir , you told me to be a bit firmer with him , ’ said Martin . |
| 12 | I accepted Benjamin 's words but , when I questioned him on why I should wear it , he just smiled , waved a bony hand and told me to be patient . |
| 13 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 14 | ‘ I told you to be careful , ’ he snapped wrathfully . |
| 15 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 16 | Monsieur Armand got angry and shouted , and Monsieur Firmin told him to be quiet . |
| 17 | Comfort gave Jackson French her address and told him to be sure to call her when he got to London . |
| 18 | ‘ I told him to be sure not to fall into the wastepaper basket on his way out , ’ said Felicity , attempting to bury her parti-coloured face in her hands . |
| 19 | It 's history now that the great Bob Paisley told him to be more ruthless for goals — and ten years on , he 's enjoying scoring more than ever . |
| 20 | So the man told him to be down there the same time next night and he returned . |
| 21 | Nobody told her to be off , or lay off , or push off , or not to touch , or to be careful . |
| 22 | ‘ I told her to be here when we arrived . |
| 23 | I told her to be here ! |
| 24 | Sophie relayed the information to Mr Miller , who shrugged irritably and told her to be as quick as possible , but the traffic was heavy as she drove out of the town and all the time she was praying that the cat 's leg would not be really broken . |
| 25 | I told her to be home reasonably early but she 's not home yet . |