Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just tell them inside that I 'm going . ’ |
| 2 | But if the breadhead was to walk away and tell me later that he found only one packet , what would I say ? |
| 3 | But why did n't you tell me before that you believed in women 's lib ? |
| 4 | Could you tell me so that I can find the statement . |
| 5 | I will tell you plainly that so far as I am concerned that objective is the promotion of books … . ’ |
| 6 | I can tell you confidentially that a well-known boxer who owns a company has been stake-building . |
| 7 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 8 | Did I tell you once that a nurse on erm radiotherapy did my psychometry ? |
| 9 | The owner of the Wight Mouse Inn will tell you jokingly that his sign actually means ‘ most children welcome ’ . |
| 10 | The area organiser responded : ‘ It 's a local rule , and I can tell you now that the committee will reject your application unless you 're in a union . ’ |
| 11 | It does n't matter what you think , it 's what people round here think and I can tell you now that you could get yourself into serious trouble . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I will tell you now that the Slave can take the shape of a human . |
| 13 | I might as well tell you now that I have done some freelance work for Her Majesty 's intelligence services . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah the Second World War , right , so er I can tell you now that in actual fact there 's no structural change during the thirties here but there is structural change during the war . |
| 15 | Oh they had I must tell you now that at the time that we had n't got a car at all , on the occasion of a royal visit , or some very important action being taken , my Chief Constable used to hire a chauffeur driven car from Mr of Lane in Ipswich . |
| 16 | Can you tell him please that I wish him happiness ? ’ |
| 17 | I can tell him frankly that the Government are not separatist . |
| 18 | yeah so I said oh I see , so that was that , so I think they 've got a , a meeting in a couple of weeks and they 'll sort of tell her discreetly that she has to carry on and do it what she 's been the |
| 19 | Fortunately most old people are all in favour of precautions of any kind , and if , in addition , you can tell her truthfully that you have just such a ‘ hospital case ’ packed for yourself at home , for an emergency , she will probably go along with the idea very willingly . |
| 20 | We 'll be discussing it this afternoon and Labour members told us and no doubt they 'll tell us again that the users of the centre have a democratic right to be consulted about how it was run Do n't tenant farmers have the right to be consulted ? |