Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [conj] tell [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Come and sit down and tell me what 's been happening . ’ |
| 2 | Come , sit down and tell me what is the cause of this extraordinary behaviour . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Please sit down and tell me why you wish to see me , ’ said Rose Maylie , looking with some surprise at this poor , rough girl from the streets . |
| 4 | ‘ Sit down and tell me about it . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Just sit down and tell us your story , ’ said Holmes kindly . |
| 6 | You sit down and tell us |
| 7 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 8 | If , if there 's an incident happens , does n't mean you have to wait for the local police officer to tell , to come along and tell him , you 've still got police support all round you anywhere . |
| 9 | It takes science to come along and tell us that what is going on under these circumstances is a brain process , let alone to tell us which brain process it is . |
| 10 | We thought it would be a good opportunity for Carol to come along and tell you , as quickly as she can , |
| 11 | They put Jenny [ Phil 's wife ] in a grotty old side ward so that she did n't upset any other of the patients , no one come in and tell us anything . |
| 12 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 13 | The wise men from Harvard fly in and tell you : ‘ It will have to get worse before it gets better ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ And now you ring her up on the day we get back from our honeymoon and get her to come down and tell you all about it ! |
| 15 | Has anyone rung up and told me I 've won a million pounds ? |
| 16 | They were uncertain of her , she could feel it as surely as if they 'd appointed a spokesman to stand up and tell her so . |
| 17 | I , I , I 'd would teach them to stand up and tell them the truth , there do n't appear to be too many of them about these days |
| 18 | And it w not like today the supermarket , every corner shop had it 's own particular news of the world you know and my mother-in-law used to go down and she used to come up and tell me all these things about the things that were going on . |
| 19 | Cymbeline is too engrossed to notice , but Ma glances up and tells me , ‘ Cymby says she would like Bimbim to join her and Mummy in a nice cup of tea when he 's finished his job . ’ |
| 20 | Oh we were look through all the magazines and they got really stressed out and told us to get out . |
| 21 | I know you need it , the way you read that letter was atrocious Matt if the letter , the word just does n't jump out and tell you what it is , look at the , the words each side of it Christ |
| 22 | He does n't think that widening the carriageway on the corner of Road and Road will be very sensible , but that was n't what we were suggesting , we were suggesting I think on er Avenue rather than so we 'll have to write back and tell him . |
| 23 | Quigley had sat there while the good people from the Mutual Life provident Association had come round and told my mum the news about her death benefit . |
| 24 | He was meant to come round and tell me his troubles . |
| 25 | Erm t just to er well there was a l a certain lack of time on this thing , I mean , Dennis had to come round and tell us to start our tick-list else we were n't gon na . |
| 26 | ‘ Then the police came along and told us we should stay inside and keep away from the windows . |
| 27 | She sobbed so much that Mrs Parvis heard through the wall and came in and told her off . |
| 28 | She was sitting on the bed cuddling Carla when her mother came in and told her to go to the shops and get some bits and pieces . |
| 29 | It was astonishing to her that he came in and told her his day , as usual , forking his food and waving the fork to show her when he had been his most witty and amusing . |
| 30 | ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories . |