Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I left the council , I worked for the council for ten years and then I stopped the council in nineteen forty six for I I telled you that afore have I . |
| 2 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 3 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 4 | ‘ Terrible , ’ he told them — and to be fair it was entirely without relish that he spoke . |
| 5 | In the end , to put them off , I told them I was quite clear about the type who attracted me and that there was no point in introducing me to anyone who did n't match up . |
| 6 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 7 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 8 | We told them so — Ed . |
| 9 | He told them that around £10m of the lost cash had been recovered and a payment of this would be made . |
| 10 | The trainer explained : ‘ Three of them , Jeff Newton , Mick Dews and Barry Dixon , had a horse with me called The White Lion , who won a seller and I told them to let it go . |
| 11 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 12 | We went to another call and like these were upper class and this young constable got out and told them to fuck away off . |
| 13 | At his first diocesan conference he told them his idea of a bishop 's job . |
| 14 | But he was resented by long memories in those who had fought a war ; by Churchill 's men for weakening the morale of the Air Force through his attacks on area bombing ; by the school of Lord Vansittart which loathed Germans and said that Nazis were typical of that race , and hated a bishop who told them never to identify the true Germany with Hitler . |
| 15 | He told them how morally indefensible was the policy of apartheid , and asked for prayer for Africa . |
| 16 | Coincidentally I 'd just told Malcolm that I was a bass player — although at this point I was only mucking around by myself at home — so Malcolm told them . |
| 17 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 18 | She 's Miss Brady , ’ he told them as soon as they rose from their knees . |
| 19 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm planning to knock this meadow before the evening is out , ’ he told them before they left and joked , ‘ You 'll have to harden your hands before you leave . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I told them it was nothing . |
| 22 | I told them I know them well , their son is not the type who just gets in fights . |
| 23 | I went out where the rest of the staff were working and I told them ‘ I am leaving . |
| 24 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 25 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 26 | After a while , I told them we did n't want to be treated this way . |
| 27 | Struggling not to blush , although failing , Erika told them , stressing emphatically the provisional nature of the interview . |
| 28 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 29 | All the advice he had been getting , he told them , was that Britain was in fact very culpable in North Sea pollution issues . |
| 30 | He also told them to stop complaining about the electoral system . |