Example sentences of "[art] [noun] tell i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the clerk tells me it has n't arrived . |
| 2 | It seems to me , racking my memory that the use classes order post dates and therefore the introduction of class B one which was the main thing in the new use classes order , the chairman tells me it was nineteen eighty eight . |
| 3 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 4 | The lads tell me it 's a shooting estate — likely that 's where people leave their cars . ’ |
| 5 | The position at the moment is that the defendant tells me he would like to acquire the premises because erm a low criticism has , was made of the premises as being suitable for the carry on of the doctors surgery in partner , a doctor 's surgery in partnership because no doubt the space and other matters , er the defendant tells me that erm they are perfectly suitable for as it were a sole petitioner to carry on his practice from them and that is why he would like to acquire it . |
| 6 | " That nice friend of yours who spent the week-end told me you had a lot of Oriental stuff , " Mrs. Hargreaves went on . |
| 7 | ‘ The dairyman told me you hated old families . ’ |
| 8 | The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager . |
| 9 | ‘ Please , sir , ’ says Management B , ‘ I have n't really raised my prices ; I have actually produced what is a new and better article , so much better than those of my competitors that , although my price is much above theirs , I have full order books and the retailers tell me they are accumulating waiting lists . ’ |
| 10 | And now you have the gall to tell me you wo n't pay our monthly account . ’ |
| 11 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 12 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 13 | The Keeper told me she 's come all the way from the Western Isles of Scotland . |
| 14 | Or , The Captain told me it was all right . |
| 15 | I was not so much gratified with the interior of the country as I had anticipated but the people tell me I have seen it in an unfavorable season , in consequence of no rain having fallen for 3 months . |
| 16 | He wants to come in , but a glance up to the bridge tells me he expects a vast crowd to appear out of nowhere , the minute he strips naked . |
| 17 | On the morning of the operation day , the surgeon told me he thought Michael had only a few months to live . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when I got my teacher 's job , the aunt told me I owed her a lot of money . |
| 19 | ‘ The teachers told me he 'd let the clots in with the cream . ’ |
| 20 | The mirror tells me it 's Snow White . |
| 21 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 22 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 23 | Later on , pleading a shortage of space , the reporter told me I would have no chance to answer . |
| 24 | The voice told me it was Cawthorne as much as if he 'd said ‘ spade bitch ’ . |
| 25 | The feller that did the wiring told me it was dangerous , especially with all the wood about . ’ |
| 26 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 27 | Distraught Christine , of Bell Farm , York , said : ‘ The doctors told me he could die any minute . ’ |
| 28 | The doctors told me he was unimproved by his stay with them . |
| 29 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 30 | The doctors told me I should n't talk so much . |