Example sentences of "[conj] he [modal v] tell you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 2 | Delighted to see you , Mr and Mrs White — Dartmouth , I 'm sorry — not married yet , ha , ha , two weeks in paradise and you will be , we can arrange a beautiful and tasteful ceremony at sunset on the jetty just behind the oil tanks — this is the Captain 's lounge bar , this is the Captain himself — buy him a rum and he 'll tell you his life story in four different languages , two of them English — and this is the staircase — can I give you a hand with that bag ? |
| 3 | Ask any player who has been unfortunate enough to fire a ball into the thick marram grass of a dune on a links and he 'll tell you there is only one way out — pick it up and start again . |
| 4 | ‘ And he 'll tell you that each of us would-be Marines is one in a million — one in a billion — except for he who sets himself above the rest of his brothers ; and that one is less . ’ |
| 5 | Hepzibah says , give him a stray feather and he 'll tell you which bird it comes from ! ’ |
| 6 | Now you talk to any coward , a real coward like myself , and he 'll tell you there 's a point where fear becomes so great it actually turns into courage , not out of anger or fury but that marvellous innate desire to save your own skin . |
| 7 | he , erm and he 'll tell you whether it 's worth repairing or not Joyce |
| 8 | They can ask you anything and he 'll tell you the truth . |
| 9 | they were on about that they ship them abroad and th , they were interviewing a lad in London he said oh , he used to get up in the morning and er go down to the phone box and phone this contact they know and he 'd tell you what cars you wanted pinching this day and they pinch them to order ! |
| 10 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 11 | Push him , and he will tell you — slick appearance to the contrary — that he is too hard up to buy fancy clothes . |
| 12 | Erm , and he can tell you better than me , really the benefits of living assurance . |
| 13 | Because he is a member and he can tell you about it . |
| 14 | I do n't know , but he may tell you more than I can . |
| 15 | ‘ Bill Curtin , as he would tell you within minutes of making your acquaintance , was founder and head of the largest British firm of consulting engineers outside London . |