Example sentences of "i [modal v] tell you " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what 's is worth , as a motorist , I may tell you I 'm thirty years standing , and I explained to the people when I phoned your office up , I 've had thirty years standing as a driver , I check my oil , I check my water , I lost no compression , no water . |
| 2 | I suppose I ought to tell you : Swallow has a bit of a weakness where women are concerned . |
| 3 | Ladies and gentlemen , we just before we get on with the second part of the meeting when erm , meeting erm I think I ought to tell you that erm one of our committee members died a very short while back . |
| 4 | Then not ungently , ‘ I ought to tell you , they did talk to me about him , it ca n't be news to you what they are saying , that Michel has run off with your mother and that he wants to marry her . |
| 5 | ‘ Before we find the others Mrs. Channing , I ought to tell you that we did n't run into each other by accident . |
| 6 | I thought I ought to tell you that . |
| 7 | ‘ Cheryl , there 's something I ought to tell you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't suppose it 's important , but I thought I ought to tell you that I saw Mr Riddle on Friday evening . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not sure I ought to tell you . |
| 10 | ‘ Hrun , ’ he said quickly , ‘ there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 11 | He said , ‘ I think I ought to tell you that I do not grieve for my mother . ’ |
| 12 | Finally he said , ‘ I ought to tell you — I was going to , but there has n't been an opportunity . |
| 13 | He turned on his heel , heading for the door , then paused and informed her over his shoulder , ‘ Oh , by the way , I ought to tell you I knew you were n't sleeping naked . |
| 14 | I 'm not quite sure what I ought to tell you yet . |
| 15 | David — there 's something I ought to tell you . |
| 16 | For I must tell you friendly in your ear , |
| 17 | Please , I 've found something , I must tell you . |
| 18 | I must tell you Minnie that things have not been good between my old beloved mistress and me which it is not fitting that I should now go into but this blow has brought us closer together in our love and concern for Miss Henrietta . |
| 19 | All the same , I must tell you that my heart sank when I thought of you getting ready to serve a life sentence of accounting in that ghastly tower block at London Bridge station . |
| 20 | Oh , and incidentally , I must tell you at this point that his pre-birth environment was most carefully handled . |
| 21 | I must tell you , if you do n't already know from the newspapers , that he is cared for by a most responsive nurse who has been enabled by hormone therapy to breast feed him . |
| 22 | I must tell you that this infant has never cried at all apart from at the moment of birth when he took his first breath — and that must be accepted as an unavoidable demand for satisfaction of an impossible desire . |
| 23 | I must tell you , though , that your son could , I am sure , have injured my father , but he did n't . |
| 24 | ‘ I must tell you , this might mean surgery or some form of drugs … ’ |
| 25 | My sister 's burnt her arm , but before you come and dress it , I must tell you that we 're frightfully hard up . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's difficult to believe that I 'm still a Musketeer , but I am , and as we 've always told each other everything , I must tell you that although Mummy and Dad do such a lot for me , I 'm Perfectly miserable . |
| 27 | However , I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene . |
| 28 | Before we start our session , I must tell you about an excellent course I attended recently . |
| 29 | ‘ As an astrologer , I must tell you there is a conjunction in Uranus . ’ |
| 30 | But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins . |