Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | People told me it is like a period pain , and to start with it was very like a period pain . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , whoever told you it is n't allowed , tell them to come and tell me , ’ I said , and I took the child outside . |
| 3 | Tell them it is much , much worse . ’ |
| 4 | I tell them it is ; I tell them there 's a man 's body at the bottom of the air shaft and they believe me . |
| 5 | Along with Siemens Italia SpA president Giorgio Scanavacca , Italian legal authorities arrested Davide Giacalone , former advisor to Oscar Mammi , former minister of post and telecom , on bribery charges : Giacalone is charged with having accepted $5.3m from Giuseppe Parrella , former managing director of ASST , Azienda Telefonica dello Stato SpA , in the minister 's study ; Giacalone has already told the police that he passed the money on to representatives of the Republican party ; for his part , the former PTT minister declared his innocence : ‘ That I was involved in a history of billion-lire bribes is as unfounded as it is untrue — at whatever moment the magistrates tell me it is necessary to investigate my accounts , I will liberate myself immediately from parliamentary immunity , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Therese — tell me it is not ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me it is not true , Thomas . |
| 8 | I tell you it is … it IS . ’ |
| 9 | If you ask old people whether they ever think of themselves as old , they tell you it is only when they are ill or feeling very unhappy . |
| 10 | The woman answered , ‘ And I tell you it is dangerous , Berndt . |
| 11 | So you forgive me because I am your friend when I tell you it is perhaps — baby . |
| 12 | Well it , it shows come on I 'm gon na hit the brake , he 's got a chuffing accelerator pedal , a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and he 's banging like this and it 's brake 's not working prop it 's , it 's funny , but there was a bloody tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian , and he 's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it on this tent , it 's funny , I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it . |
| 13 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 14 | Mr Stern 's costings tell him it is not worth paying more than £750/acre for bare arable land if he is to make a reasonable living . |
| 15 | Tell him it is my command , or he wo n't come . ’ |
| 16 | But if they tell us it is ‘ better ’ to be tall , or British , or artistic , or shop at Harrods , we just might take them seriously — yet such ideas are just as meaningless . |
| 17 | ‘ While a smile brightens up everyone 's looks , scientists also tell us it is good for our health because chemicals are produced which actually cheer us up , ’ said toothbrush makers Oral B , which organised the survey . |
| 18 | Tony measures the temperature and tells me it is warming up . |
| 19 | She looked at Mr Browning , startled , and he drew a clean handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the blood away tenderly , saying , ‘ She tells me it is nothing , nothing she has not had before . ’ |
| 20 | Barclays tells me it is particularly difficult in Spain , Italy and and France . |
| 21 | ‘ Rose tells me it is one of your interests . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Something tells me it is n't going to be that easy . ’ |
| 23 | He added : ‘ People who have heard it tell me it is extremely damaging , based not only on what Camilla Parker Bowles is heard to say to him , but more so on what he says to her . |
| 24 | Anna became agitated , Do n't tell me it is n't true ! |
| 25 | ‘ And do n't tell me it is merely a legal hitch ! ’ |
| 26 | Increasingly people will tell you it is Monday , and most diaries and calendars would confirm that assumption by relegating Saturday and Sunday to the ‘ weekend ’ . |
| 27 | Because of its pattern of communications , they will tell you it is an ideal place for a rendezvous . |
| 28 | WILLIAMS : It is with great reluctance that I speak and I beg you to forgive me , but I must tell you it is the Countess of Pembroke , a lady noted for her wit and beauty but of a wanton disposition . |
| 29 | I 've had that , and I can tell you it is always a hundred times better outside . |
| 30 | You can tell him it is what his father would have wished him to do . ’ |