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Example sentences for "tell you"

  • I tell you what it is, Edna; you can't afford to snub Mrs. Belthrop.

  • No; I shan't tell you anything of the sort, though I shouldn't be lying if I did.

  • He says to tell you he will be in Vera Cruz the beginning of next month,"--clatter, clatter!

  • As to the mean depth of this part of the Pacific, I tell you it is only 4,000 yards.

  • But allow me to tell you that in exploring Vigo Bay you have only been beforehand with a rival society.

  • Let me tell you then, Professor, that you will not regret the time passed on board my vessel.

  • I'll tell you what I want: I want to know just where you and I stand.

  • Did not I tell you what he said of you the other day?

  • His good-nature, his humanity, as I tell you, would be quite enough to account for the horses.

  • Whether or no, I won't be prayed agin, I tell you.

  • Well then, I'll tell you," said Stryver, coming slowly into a sitting posture.

  • I'll tell you when I first thought I would like to give you a piano, Milly, and that was when you learned that book of old Swedish songs that your grandfather used to sing.

  • Didn't I tell you she'd get us into trouble of some kind, if you brought her?

  • I tell you, sister, the hogs of this country are put upon!

  • Sit down like a good girl, Marie, and don't ruin my poor hat, and I'll tell you a story.

  • I go to take dat old woman to de court if she ain't careful, I tell you!

  • What I tell you," said Gurth, "is as true as the moon is in heaven.

  • And that was what I was about to tell you," said the monk, "had your hastiness allowed me time.

  • I add, that seven of these assailants were Knights of the Temple--and Sir Brian de Bois-Guilbert well knows the truth of what I tell you.

  • Wamba; "let me tell you, when you fill my cloak, you are wrapped in a general's cassock.

  • I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.

  • Just you believe what I say, and do as I tell you.

  • I wasn't sent to tell you, and so I can't tell you.

  • Then let me tell you I don't think it at all polite of you to say Mister to me.

  • The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to force me to tell you a fib to escape it.

  • Very well I'll tell you, so make no more ado.

  • Yes, but I have something important to do, which I'll tell you of when the time comes, and it's best to make sure.

  • How many more times must I tell you to keep from running so fast when you be eating?

  • Yes, I will take the flowers; shall I tell you, sire, what is the first thing the princess does with them?

  • Alice didn't venture to ask what he paid them with; and so you see I can't tell YOU.

  • I'll tell you, if you'll move a little further on,' the Fawn said.

  • I tell you what, Ned, I'm afraid it hasn't been all right with Reuben.

  • I tell you it is a lifelong wrong, and a lifelong loss; but thank heaven, they don't do it now.

  • I won't tell you I have been to consult those old women who advertise in the newspapers; you 'll call me an old imbecile.

  • I 'll tell you what to do, this lovely weather," said Cecilia.

  • Now that I have obtained it, let me tell you that I am no more in love with Miss Light than you are.

  • Get him to tell you what he made a figure upon.

  • I don't know how to tell you what I am doing.

  • You could not bring me better news," replied Camaralzaman, "and in return I have something pleasant to tell you.

  • I have no words, madam, to tell you of my feelings at this terrible sight.

  • Accordingly, as soon as they were alone she took Haiatelnefous by the hand and said: "Princess, I have a secret to tell you, and must throw myself on your mercy.

  • I am going to tell you my story and that of the hind I have with me, and if you find it more marvellous than that of the merchant whom you are about to kill, I hope that you will do away with a third part of his punishment?

  • Enter boldly at the gate, which always stands open, but do not ask us to tell you what we saw or what befel us there, for that you will learn for yourself.

  • Of course I won't come here if I am unwelcome, but I am in honour bound to tell you that I intend to meet your daughter elsewhere, whenever I possibly can.

  • Since you don't seem to share the estimate of me, I believe I'll tell you," said Laddie.

  • I tell you I was proud of our big white team as it came prancing down the hill, and the gleaming patent leather trimmings, and the brass side lamps shining in the sun.

  • Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

  • Madam, as thereto sworn by your command, Which my love makes religion to obey, I tell you this: Caesar through Syria Intends his journey, and within three days You with your children will he send before.

  • I do not shame To tell you what I was, since my conversion So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am.

  • I am loath to tell you what I would you knew.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tell you" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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