Example sentences of "[noun] tell i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 2 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Your eyes tell me exactly what you need . |
| 4 | Why on earth would Donal tell me where you lived ? ’ |
| 5 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 6 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 7 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 8 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 9 | " Devraux told me today he is going to Canton again soon , " he said in an excited whisper when his wife came to plunge her arms in the suds beside him . |
| 10 | ‘ My Carrie told me when I come in 'ere this mornin' , ’ Danny replied . |
| 11 | Write to me with all news/ questions and gossip on Michael Jackson , Jackson 5 , Jacksons Tell me how ya love 'em . |
| 12 | He leaves messages to tell me where he is . |
| 13 | Signor Candiano told me scarcely anything . ’ |
| 14 | Canst thoo tell me where 'e might be ? ’ |
| 15 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 16 | ‘ Sanay tell me how you look . |
| 17 | I 'll make the servants tell me where it is . |
| 18 | I asked the conductor to tell me when we came to my stop , and he said , " Lady , you think I got X-ray eyes or something ? |
| 19 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 20 | Mrs Figgis-Hewett told me yesterday you were . |
| 21 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 22 | on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer |
| 23 | Caroline told me later she was terribly nervous . |
| 24 | Where is this monster girls , girls tell me where it is gone ? |
| 25 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 26 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 27 | Meanwhile band manager Charles Cosh tells me how they 're going to crack America . |
| 28 | ‘ He proceeded to spend four minutes telling me why I could n't have the job , and then said , ‘ I 'm sorry , my time is more or less up now ’ . |
| 29 | Small time burglars with the social skills of a potted shrimp telling me how they 're saving all their readies to invest in a club one day — ‘ Maybe Puerto Banus , maybe Chesterfield , I 'm not sure yet . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ The Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Trust told me how we could set up a clinic to register as many people as possible , ’ said Mr Griffiths . |