Example sentences of "[noun sg] tell i [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 2 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 3 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 4 | Canst thoo tell me where 'e might be ? ’ |
| 5 | One of the stories , maybe , that Maman told me when I was small . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | One young man told me how he was recruited into the South African police force . |
| 8 | Joan Bower of the voluntary organisation Age Concern told me how her local branch takes services to its clients , rather than making them travel . |
| 9 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | One former patient told me how her early childhood had been marred by her mother forever threatening to ‘ walk out and leave you all to it ’ whenever there was any family dispute — or even when one of the children did not comply with a request quickly enough . |
| 13 | I tried to get Dad to tell me where they 'd gone but he was tipsy and only laughed and said they 'd gone on their ‘ funnymoon ’ . |
| 14 | My mother told me when I come out of prison that I 'm very paranoid . |