Example sentences of "tell [pron] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or Berty telled somebody and it |
| 2 | I quickly told them that it was their problem and they who had to sort it out . |
| 3 | Darwin told them that it was ‘ First Class ’ , that is within plus or minus one degree . |
| 4 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 5 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 6 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 7 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 8 | He told me that it was necessary for them to start praying at home every day . |
| 9 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 10 | They told me that it was of no use to me any more and that I 'd be better off letting them have it . |
| 11 | John told me that it was a red-throated diver ; and those lovely creatures have remained favourites of mine ever since . |
| 12 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 13 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 14 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 15 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 16 | When voices started rising and violence seemed inevitable , Kalchu told me that it would n't be resolved for hours and , rather than waiting around in the cold on the off-chance of getting some meat , we might as well set out for home . |
| 17 | He told me that it was a shrine to Ban Bhāi , god of the forest . |
| 18 | A detective-constable who was talking to me later told me that it 's one of the Whistler 's trademarks . |
| 19 | One woman told me that it was the day she was able to swim the width of the local pool after years of being afraid . |
| 20 | On one visit to Chapman in Norfolk , he told me that it was true he always worked ‘ to the most minimal margins ’ and that he ‘ subordinated everything to creating the fastest possible car ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ But the vendor told me that it would stop anyone getting access to the computer ! ’ |
| 22 | Some told me that it was ‘ useless ’ to put up posters . |
| 23 | Several Veterans ' of the Winter of discontent' told me that it was mainly the younger students who got together with their teachers to protest . |
| 24 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 25 | The doctor told me that it was the first time she had made an advance to anybody . |
| 26 | My instinct , both of mercy and goodwill , was to seek Barbara 's approval to a reference to the Prime Minister , but an even stronger instinct told me that it was likely to be met by a flat refusal and that the negotiating process would be stillborn . |
| 27 | Police told me that it was probably taken by joyriders , and will end up miles away in somewhere like Bristol . |
| 28 | She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy . |
| 29 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 30 | And er , er , the next thing I remember was er , er being picked up by somebody off this pile of bricks and the doctor told me that it was a gas , some sort of gas has come out of it which had overpowered me like , you know . |