Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] tell i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was then that she told me about the hysterectomy . ’ |
| 2 | Earthy type , she used to say , but it was all talk with him and he never gave her any trouble that she told me about . ’ |
| 3 | and I know something that she told me about you that I know that she do n't , she do n't know that I , I know that , you do n't know that , I know |
| 4 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 5 | ‘ Did you care when you walked out on me the day that you told me about the notes and the wine glass , and then Rebecca came back to the office ? |
| 6 | I LIKE that you tell me about it , your flesh impatient with words , you say : go inside me — yeah — yeah — no — more — and your body whiplashes head to toe , the ill-appreciated G spot , baby you got it . |
| 7 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 8 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 9 | If somebody told me to strictly control the car I would put both hands on the steering wheel but not necessarily both feet on the er brake pedal . |
| 10 | Erm confused as hell until somebody told me about having a pie . |
| 11 | It did n't get any better and somebody told me about and I took her down there , oh Mrs she 's picked up mange , I said mange , I know she said you feel just like when your child 's got nits in their hair |
| 12 | He told you that , and you told me in your letter . |
| 13 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 14 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 15 | She took from my coat a hair which was not there , and she told me to be careful . |
| 16 | He told May , and she told me to be careful . |
| 17 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
| 18 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 19 | We nibbled olives and she told me about Italy . |
| 20 | Betty 's seen it and she told me about it . |
| 21 | She is in the early stages of pregnancy , her belly gently swelling inside her pink dress , and she tells me with obvious delight that she is expecting a summer bambino . |
| 22 | Until you told me about Amy , I did n't guess , that either . ’ |
| 23 | If you tell me of Sarah 's or Rachel 's or Rebecca 's nursing their children I can answer that the one drew water at a well for her father 's flocks , another baked cakes on a hearth , and another dressed savoury meat for her husband . |
| 24 | I promise I 'll be waiting , if you tell me in advance ! ’ |
| 25 | IF YOU TOLD ME TO , YES . |
| 26 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 28 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 29 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 30 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |