Example sentences of "tell [pron] it be [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |
| 2 | ‘ I told them it was my fault — it was n't the driver 's fault . ’ |
| 3 | She told me it was your smile that did it . |
| 4 | ‘ A little bird told me it was your birthday , ’ he said . |
| 5 | You remember , I told you it 's his company which is building the villas ? ’ |
| 6 | I told you it was him did n't I ? |
| 7 | Well I told you it was her , that daughter . |
| 8 | The snubs and indignities that he received from that quarter have passed into Gaullist lore : when he so much as enquired about the progress of the assembly 's constitutional commission , one of his own former ministers told him it was none of his business . |
| 9 | I told her it 's my wife come down for the day … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I told her it was him what broke into my house . |
| 11 | Sometimes her common sense still told her it was nothing but an invention for dirtying three times as many dishes , this business of frying and parboiling , and moving things from plate to plate . |
| 12 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 13 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 14 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 15 | I felt a perverse , and entirely unfair , urge to bang their heads together and tell them it was their duty to be depressed and scruffy like me . |
| 16 | I said , but like you tell me it 's your life , mm |
| 17 | Tell me it 's someone else , tell me it was just someone that looked like you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Tell him it 's my order . |
| 19 | Tell him it is my command , or he wo n't come . ’ |
| 20 | and it jerked me , but she said it 's a muscle been pulled and it 's , it keeps spasm so she said er , could of been nasty , said I dare n't tell him , cos I says if I tell him it was his fault , I says he 'll never give me another ride , it 's again Thursday night coming back , and his car , you know the car kept , bump , bump , bump , bump , bump |
| 21 | If I tell her it was I who was responsible for my wife 's death , she 'll turn away from me in horror and disgust . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to pry , Claudia , but it does n't need a genius to know something went wrong between you and Roman Wyatt the other night , and every instinct I have tells me it 's something to do with Dana . ’ |
| 23 | She looked at Mr Browning , startled , and he drew a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood away tenderly , saying , ‘ She tells me it is nothing , nothing she has not had before . ’ |
| 24 | Lorne tells me it was my finest hour — and my most shameless . |
| 25 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , ma'am , ’ the hotel-owner told me , ‘ I was one of Mr Rochester 's servants at the time , and I can tell you it was his mad wife who started the fire in the governess 's room . |
| 27 | You can tell him it is what his father would have wished him to do . ’ |
| 28 | She did n't tell him it was what had triggered off the virus . |
| 29 | Do n't Tell Her It 's Me |
| 30 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |