Example sentences of "i [conj] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's me that told him not to go ! |
| 2 | It 's me that told him not to go cos I said , I did n't want to go this week and he did n't go . |
| 3 | Melody looked up at his drawn face and said , ‘ I 'm sorry it was me that told you , Seb , but I 'm not sorry about what we did afterwards , are you ? ’ |
| 4 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 5 | Nothing puts me off more than an artist coming to me and telling me that their work sells well . |
| 6 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 7 | Okay now er Garth Brookes my favourite country singer at the moment and er your chance to win this Elvis video okay you have to ring in we 're giving this away first you have to ring in and tell me and tell me the next word no I ca n't do that I ca n't no I ca n't do it 's too easy okay . |
| 8 | When my master summoned me and told me you had written to him , at first I was angry with you for betraying my and I blessed you . |
| 9 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 10 | Stopped me and told me he 'd let him go to St Francis Xavier 's . |
| 11 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 12 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 13 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 14 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 15 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 16 | I wanted to sit there and ask him all about it , but he finished questioning me and told me to leave . |
| 17 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 18 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 19 | They laughed at me and told me my fingers were no use for that work , which was true . |
| 20 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 21 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 22 | A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for . |
| 23 | ‘ The reason I 'm here is because my brother phoned me and told me your cousin was in urgent need of a tutor . |
| 24 | Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’ |
| 25 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 26 | Sharon stopped me and told me . |
| 27 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 28 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 29 | My daughter hugs me and tells me how proud she is . |
| 30 | Then he goes all quiet and throws some money at me and tells me to hurry up and ca n't wait to get the other boy out of the shop . |