Example sentences of "tell you [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They told you everything about the company , what their plans were , how much they earned and so you felt part of the team . |
2 | ‘ And Mrs McDougall told you something about him that changed your minds ? ’ |
3 | It told you something about the standard of the England game when coverage of the Wales game continued until the end , even though we scored 3 more in that time . |
4 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
5 | And she likes her very much and erm I told you she by chance . |
6 | do like me , I can tell you all about others from three weeks after I there , I was there I could have told you everything about it |
7 | I 've told you something of the plan — ‘ |
8 | So I I hope I 've told you something about the history of the house . |
9 | Vam , have I told you one about a , I 've told you one about a vampires in n it ? |
10 | Vam , have I told you one about a , I 've told you one about a vampires in n it ? |
11 | I 've told you nothing but a pack of lies . ’ |
12 | Have they told you anything about that ? |
13 | ‘ Have n't told you anything about me , have I ? |
14 | Has n't Paige told you anything about me ? ’ |
15 | Then stupidly , she answered , ‘ Tell you what about Ryan ? ’ |
16 | Yeah , but I tell you what about then I says to him I went to him and says erm about the stamp thirty one hundred , he says erm |
17 | Let me for your own good tell you something about Miss Trunchbull . |
18 | Finally , there are simple conventions that need explaining : not all pupils will know that the two words printed at the head of a page tell you something about the alphabetic range of the words on that page . |
19 | ‘ IF anyone thinks the bald figures tell you anything about the quality or hard work of the consultant , then they are living in cloud cuckoo land ’ — Karl Fortes Mayer , 51 , a general surgeon at Walsall Manor Hospital in the West Midlands , commenting on publication of his patient waiting times . |
20 | Only the Policy Document , written in plain English , tells you everything about what is and is not covered ( Sun Alliance will provide you with a copy of the Policy if you wish ) . |
21 | Only the Policy document , written in plain English tells you everything about what is and is not covered ( we will provide you with a copy of the Policy if you wish ) . |
22 | Tells you nothing about Ancient Egypt but much about the nineteenth century . |
23 | Such a statement tells you nothing about the meaning of the word — to discover the meaning you have to transmit code 538 to the semantic system . |
24 | If the concern is income inequality , this sort of approach is not very helpful as it tells you nothing about the numbers that have to ‘ share ’ each proportion of income . |
25 | A wooden bench a short way up strewn with cigarette ends tells you something about those who only make it that far , but then the path is a long , steep ascent for anyone unused to hill-walking . |
26 | I get clues as to how a particular family organises its life , whether the room is a room for the whole family or a , a room that 's perhaps excludes children or a room that 's for best , that kind of which not only tells you something about that particular family but , when you 've seen enough homes , tells you about general patterns that are going on in social life . |
27 | She puts it in , and you ask her all questions about , she tells you it about it , and it has to be , and it only drinks orange squash , cos that 's wh what only Marie only drinks . |
28 | Quite apart from the mis-spellings and shabby presentation it hardly tells you anything at all . |
29 | Oh I 'm glad you asked me that duck , I could tell you plenty about it . |
30 | Looking at the cassette and tape itself will tell you nothing about the film itself . |