Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I say Charlie , a little bird told me that Joe there 's been a bit crafty . |
| 2 | Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people . |
| 3 | Abdi Aden Ibrahim , a Somali driver , said rioters near the US embassy told him that troops there had gunned down at least six people . |
| 4 | Channell told him that supporters who gave $300,000 or more could meet Reagan for 15 minutes , and that their visits were not logged on : ‘ the implication being that this was so secret that the President wanted to keep it so not everybody at the White House knew what was going on . ’ |
| 5 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 6 | Money , well they tell me that people who have a lot of money are as stressed as those that do n't have it . |
| 7 | Knowledge of the world tells us that houses which contain living rooms do not usually contain bars . |
| 8 | Instead we are living in a time when we can watch a TV ad which tells us that cars which are way beyond the range of most people 's pockets are being ‘ handbuilt ( somewhere else ) by robots ’ . |
| 9 | While we are on the subject of the amount paid in business rates , can the Minister tell us whether shops whose rates have been assessed on the basis of six-day or even five-and-a-half-day trading will have their rateable values reassessed on the basis of seven-day trading ? |
| 10 | You 're telling me that blokes we arrested , blokes we stood in court and saw sentenced , blokes we saw driven away in fucking armoured vans , have committed the exact same crimes that they were put away for ? |
| 11 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |