Example sentences of "to tell [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is done to allow them time to come back gradually to a state of full alertness without any sense of shock — but it would be just as effective if I were to snap my fingers or even simply to tell them to ‘ wake up ’ . |
| 2 | Useless to tell them to book early for the peak period : they came in droves . |
| 3 | I think the players would have been men enough to tell me to my face . |
| 4 | But now , all of a sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody . |
| 5 | She was about to tell him to be careful , but then she remembered how he had laughed at the idea that Gazzer could be dangerous , so she kept her mouth shut . |
| 6 | ‘ I did send a telegram to the caretaker to tell him to be here to let me in . |
| 7 | Carol knocked , came in before he was able to tell her to . |
| 8 | I did n't need to tell her to be careful . |
| 9 | Dr Neil wanted to tell her to be careful , that she really had little idea of how hard and cruel the world was outside the privileged fastness in which she had previously lived , but he contented himself with saying instead , ‘ Have a good time , McAllister . |
| 10 | He looked as if he was going to tell her to be quiet , and Maggie 's temper rose . |
| 11 | If I tell you a story you 'd have to agree to tell it to somebody else . |
| 12 | Actually , I guess I would n't want to tell it to anybody , not so much because I 'm ashamed ( I tell myself ) as because it 's private ; one last thing I can hide that 's between me and Andy only , so letting me feel that there is one thing at least in which I 've not betrayed him utterly . |
| 13 | So now I 'm trying to tell it to this pad he bought me this morning . |
| 14 | This story will , I hope , be convincing , for it is the way I have tried to tell it to my neuroscientific colleagues , but it will be in one important sense economical with the truth . |
| 15 | This attitude is understandable , and slimming experts who drearily continue to tell us to ‘ be satisfied just to lose weight slowly : half a pound a week is enough ’ have little or no understanding of human psychology . |