Example sentences of "[subord] i tell [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 3 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 4 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 5 | But if I tell her the truth and insist upon it , I shall be disobeying my husband and causing his mother unnecessary worry , she reflected , and was forced to accept that having made a cross for her back , she would have to bear it . |
| 6 | ‘ What if I tell you the whole truth ? |
| 7 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 8 | When I tell you the reason I 'm going you 'll wish you 'd let me go . |
| 9 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 10 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 11 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 12 | you see We was working together and you know a a few benches from each other and of course as I told you the the lads worked with a man . |