Example sentences of "to tell i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ .
2 ‘ They do n't bother to tell me where they 're going . ’
3 And there 's another one somewhere cos my friend he used to come round here with his drugs , he used to tell me where they was you know .
4 The best thing will be to tell me where you are and Daddy will come and fetch you , or Mike will .
5 Would you like to tell me where you went last night ?
6 No kidding though , would you like to tell me where you were last night ? ’
7 ‘ If the mistakes had been that obvious there were people around me to tell me where I had gone wrong , but they did n't .
8 ‘ You 'll have to tell me where she 's gone .
9 I explained that I wanted to see her father on a matter of business , but that his office had been unable to tell me where he was , and that I could get no reply by telephoning his home .
10 He leaves messages to tell me where he is .
11 Fifthly I can tell him that that will pay for over two hundred thousand cataracts operations or over seventy thousand hip operations and sixthly I will ask him to tell me where he would find the money .
12 I asked the conductor to tell me when we came to my stop , and he said , " Lady , you think I got X-ray eyes or something ?
13 She said she had something to tell me when I got home .
14 ‘ The trouble is that nobody seems able to tell me when I 'm likely to get any money !
15 There 's a special job Preston 's engaged on and I want to come to some arrangement with him — there should be room for both of us — if you would be good enough to tell me when your husband is likely to be back — "
16 In all this was a very enjoyable day recording the programme and what pleased me even more was the producer Chris Eldon Lee 's comment in a letter that he wrote to tell me when it was to be broadcast ‘ We have kept the Bishop 's Castle Railway till last as it is the best of the bunch ’ .
17 I asked her to tell me when she reached the point in the imagined scene where she felt she wished to stop walking along the street .
18 Mrs Singh agreed to tell me when she heard from the doctor .
19 Donaldson said , ‘ Are you finally going to tell me why I 'm here ? ’
20 ‘ Would you like to tell me why you want an abortion ? ’
21 So , before you start demanding to know why I lied , perhaps you 'd like to tell me why you lied . ’
22 Perhaps , to start with , you 'd like to tell me why you felt that you needed a bolt-hole ?
23 Rosie said , as they lay back , eyes narrowed in the sun , ‘ Are you going to tell me why you chose Lina ?
24 How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ?
25 ‘ Would someone care to tell me just what is going on ? ’
26 ‘ Now tell me , Matilda , ’ Miss Honey said , still polishing , ‘ try to tell me exactly what goes on inside your head when you get a multiplication like that to do .
27 The grandfather added : ‘ He was too upset to tell me how they died and I did n't want to ask him .
28 would someone like to tell me how they would actually incorporate that , that additional information into the first statement ?
29 They will say ‘ I did n't know he was hoarding the tablets ’ or ‘ If only I had listened to what he was saying , maybe he was trying to tell me how he felt , and I was always too busy to listen . ’
30 Arrogant bully ! … trying to tell me how I should pass my time and with whom I should pass it .
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