Example sentences of "tell me [prep] my " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was forgetting what you told me in my surgery . |
| 2 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 3 | My aggressiveness towards the adults around me for putting me in such an invidious position was certainly unacknowledged and unconscious , and had my sisters not told me of my bullying tactics — which I had conveniently forgotten — it is likely that I should not be able to acknowledge it even now . |
| 4 | An officer of the secret police began his interrogation of the anthropologist who had been denounced and brought to his office : ‘ Now , tell me about my genealogy — you collected it from my father last week . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Tell me about my real father . |
| 6 | The white tube , the cork-effect filter , the solid hot flare of the match and my lips tell me of my lungs as I make my own smoke , with its blue drifting and acrid smell . |
| 7 | ‘ Tell me of my brother . ’ |
| 8 | He can make you believe you are the only woman on earth for him , and only a Frenchman out of all the men in the world could look at me and tell me to my face that I am beautiful . |
| 9 | Tell me to my face . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now , tell me to my face that you do n't want to come with me . ’ |
| 11 | She gently tells me of my mistakes , and praises me if I do well . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , while you 're here supporting your partner you can tell me to my face why you intend walking out on me a second time in my life . ’ |
| 13 | Fergus held his breath ; he thought : now will she tell me of my parents ? |
| 14 | And so , before Reldresal came to tell me of my punishment , I went to the north of Lilliput , where our ships lay . |
| 15 | I think the players would have been men enough to tell me to my face . |
| 16 | She quickly finished all she had to tell me about my errands . |
| 17 | You dare to tell me about my child ? ’ |