Example sentences of "to tell [pron] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the adults with whom they interact must continue to be interested in what they have to say , more concerned to answer questions and to sustain and extend their interests than to tell them what the adults think they ought to know and then to check that they can remember what they were told ( Wood , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Unlike traditional sales where you wait until you get round there to tell them what the price is you have you have to er tell them what er the price on the phone . |
| 3 | Now West Mercia Police want the public to tell them what the travellers are doing . |
| 4 | Without Michael Fish ( no pun intended ) to tell me what the weather would bring the next day , I was very pleased to find that the local paper La Voz de Galicia carried an excellent synoptic chart and forecast . |
| 5 | Are you going to tell me what the hell is going on ? ’ |
| 6 | But just to make even surer , I am going to ask you to tell me what the three things are that could make you rich . ’ |
| 7 | I come in and put the bedside light on , and he lies there with his eyes half-open , conscious but immobilized , as if he were under some strange paralysing drug , unable to tell me what the trouble was , unable to nod or smile or shake off his dream . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , Cand , are you going to tell me what the heck you 're talking about , or do I have to play riddle-me-ree for the next few hours ? ’ |
| 9 | Another way would be to tell me what the angle is from |
| 10 | Yet I am looking forward to meeting Mr Stratton again , because thus far he has refused point-blank to tell me who the murderer was … ’ |
| 11 | If you see new words written and are not sure of the pronunciation because you have not heard the word or phrase used , check the pronunciation with friends — they do not have to be experts at phonetics to tell you what the word rhymes with — then bring it into your own conversation with confidence . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're hardly likely to tell you what the cunt 's planning . |
| 13 | Those chaps in helmets who 're always willing to tell you what the time is . ’ |
| 14 | If you read Totem and Taboo , and I , by the way I do expect all of you er to read it , because it is one of the set er books , and one of the things I 'm not gon na do in these lectures on the black books , is to tell you what the book says , and just kind of repeat it in the lecture . |
| 15 | He asked the lawyer to tell him what the Law said . |
| 16 | So we 've got to tell him what the options are . |
| 17 | Orders came in , and that helped the warehouse people unpack the boxes and despatch them ; the information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were , and it was a continuous process and all of the people tended to see the computer as working very much for them , rather than for the other department next door . |
| 18 | The information got fed back to the editor to tell him what the sales were . |
| 19 | These are the areas where the difficulties of the LM 's lie and , as Hahnemann tells us in §278 , theorizing is not enough to tell us what the ideal degree of smallness of the dose is to effect a gentle cure , and that ‘ Only pure experiment , the meticulous observation of the sensitivity of each patient , and sound experience can determine this in each individual case . ’ |
| 20 | We 've found no one yet who 's willing to tell us what the collar is . |
| 21 | to meet with Jim so that we can a a the objective of which will be for Jim to tell us what the content of his course is , so we can assess where whether there are gaps in our training . |
| 22 | He 's an expert and to tell us what the practice is . |
| 23 | Are you able to tell us what the timescale of that is ? |
| 24 | Ian McCaskill 's trying to tell us what the weather forecast 'll |