Example sentences of "[conj] tell [pers pn] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We do n't lecture people or tell them what they must do . |
| 2 | All he did was ask Mr Fractor to explain things or tell him what he wanted to know . |
| 3 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 4 | They ca n't force us out , or tell us what to do , ’ he said . |
| 5 | With a burst of self-pity , she mentally reviled Hank for never talking to her or telling her what he was going to do . |
| 6 | A typical instance can be seen when one person attempts to persuade another to do something that the latter does n't want to do , or to tell him something that he does n't want to hear . |
| 7 | She is herself a nurse , not by any means inarticulate , but she could get no one to speak to or to tell her anything . |
| 8 | I think it would be best now to tell you what happened this afternoon . |
| 9 | It was the part of him that told him he was managing fine and not to change as it would just lead to hassles and worries . |
| 10 | He ran up the street and through the town as far as the main road , where he saw a sign that told him it was just seventy miles from there to London . |
| 11 | In Darlington , Robert visited an agency that told him it was unable to help him find accommodation in Newton Aycliffe . |
| 12 | Beneath the fabric of his borrowed shirt , her fingers trapped and twisted his skin in a burning pinch that told him she intended to deal with him later . |
| 13 | They knew without being told that this was the chief telegraphist , whose word was law on starboard watch ; knew it without seeing the three brass buttons on either sleeve cuff which pronounced his rank or the lightning-flashed wings on his right arm that told them he was the telegraphist they sought . |
| 14 | Roman shot her a glance that told her nothing of what he was thinking . |
| 15 | He answered her with a look that told her nothing . |
| 16 | It was only the light from their own carriage lamps falling on the neglected driveway that told her they were approaching the house , and the salt smell that got stronger and stronger and seeped through the closed windows of the carriage . |
| 17 | She had glanced at him when directions were needed , observed his chiselled profile just for a moment , saw the unreadable expression , the tightness in his angular jaw , the closed look that told her his thoughts had moved on , were miles away from the insignificant circumstances of the foolish girl beside him . |
| 18 | She leant back against the wall of the barn for support , feeling the roughness of the stone against her bare shoulders , watching him , knowing the message in his gaze , that look that told her his kiss could be just the beginning . |
| 19 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 20 | It was n't the egotism she feared that told her none of the others would understand just what the program was , or its significance . |
| 21 | He smiled again , a sad , lonely smile that told her he was still not hers . |
| 22 | The count 's cold voice and his return to formality assured Maggie that he had seen this small action and now he sat beside her with a set look on his face that told her he might very well not speak for the whole of the journey . |
| 23 | Everything about him was so dear to her now ; his smile , his face , the soft huskiness in his voice that told her he wanted her . |
| 24 | ‘ It was their manner that told me they had to be taken seriously . |
| 25 | I 'm quite sure that when she said that , come see a man that told me everything I did , she did n't just leave it there , but she 'd have put such words as and he did n't condemn me he did n't berate me he did n't point a judgemental finger at me , but he loved me ! |
| 26 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |
| 27 | " I sorry , " he said once again , in a hopeless voice that told me I had n't convinced him . |
| 28 | Interestingly , it was not , as is usual , the noise that told us we were approaching a large nesting cliff , but an almost overpowering smell of guano . |
| 29 | Mercifully , the storyteller does not preach , nor tell us what to think . |
| 30 | Yeah well if you want to that then that 's fine as well , I mean that Tell you what , the best thing then is can everyone put a note in my pigeon hole by Monday in other words , you 've got the weekend to decide for definite . |