Example sentences of "tell [pron] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fisherman unloading boxes of fish , shimmering in the arc lights of the pier , told me the next one was not until midday the following day . |
| 2 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 3 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 4 | Oh , so you do n't so told you the first year ! |
| 5 | Well I think there in , well they ca n't go together , told you the last time you was here , they ca n't go on holiday together . |
| 6 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 9 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 10 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 11 | Hell , he could n't even ask , having told her the next time she would have to take the initiative , but if she did n't take it soon he was going to go out of his mind ! |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me the next scene . |
| 13 | Who can put their hand up and tell me the next number ? |
| 14 | Each stage of the operation is recorded on a tape machine and each operator reports the end of each stage to that machine and the machine will — providing all the agents on that scheme have also reported in — tell you the next stage . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Who can tell me the next number . |
| 17 | Well , can I tell you the first one we went to we went to get food and there was none left ! |
| 18 | And he said , it 's most unlike me , as you probably know , but he said I could n't tell you the last time I had time off work , but he said , I have n't been into the office since th cos I 've been feeling really bad ! |
| 19 | What do I tell him the next time he asks |
| 20 | ‘ If they would n't tell us the first time , why should they do so now ? ’ |
| 21 | 2 Remember all the details that you can — you may have forgotten some of them when you were telling it the first time . |
| 22 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |