Example sentences of "tell [pron] [prep] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert spoke to the girls : " They 're having Manahans Band tonight , " he told them with nearly religious approval . |
| 2 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 3 | Judges ought , when they are pre-reading a case , to be able to pick up the skeleton argument , and they ought actually to be able to start with the skeleton argument , which would tell them in very succinct form the background facts and what the points are . |
| 4 | Then Gedanken remembered her uncle telling her about really strong gravity ; it could be faked by really hard acceleration . |
| 5 | Hypnotists now often suggest that the subject focuses his attention by staring fixedly at a drawing pin on the wall , while telling him in rather monotonous tones that he is becoming more relaxed and sleepy . |