Example sentences of "[pron] tell me [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone told me the hedge is centuries old . |
| 2 | Someone tells me the other day that I , I 've you know y |
| 3 | Wo n't someone tell me a story ? |
| 4 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 5 | " Your father thought one of the others would have blown the gaff to me — presumably they thought he had — the net result , as always when you leave it to George , being that nobody told me a thing . |
| 6 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 7 | ‘ Somebody told me a very good memory game to play the other day . |
| 8 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 9 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 10 | Right let's just briefly run through this er essay on migration that so some of you answered , ca n't remember , would somebody tell me the title of it again ? |
| 11 | Today I have had a reply to a parliamentary question to the Minister , which tells me the latest figures of young people currently in young offender institutions . |
| 12 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 13 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 14 | I called the local council who told me the wasps were best left until the end of the season when they would follow their queen and find somewhere else to live . |
| 15 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 16 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 17 | It was a friend of Francis 's who told me the facts , one woman whom I do remember , though not her face . |
| 18 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 19 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 20 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 21 | ‘ My dear , it is time you told me a little more about it . |
| 22 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
| 23 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 24 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 25 | You told me the truth . ’ |
| 26 | You told me the truth . |
| 27 | You told me the house is in need of attention ; move and you can move to a place which is in excellent order and in a more central position where you 'll be able to attract more customers , ’ he said , treading a verbal tightrope between head-banging irritation and reasoned appeal . |
| 28 | She told me no one seemed to be wearing jumpers with the car 's name on them , so I made her one without charge . |
| 29 | She told me no one was allowed to see him . |
| 30 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |