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• Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
• Don't tell me what to do!
• Tell me what happened last night
• I can't tell you how happy I am
• À d’autres moments le vieil homme leur racontait des histoires d’escroquerie de sa jeunesse.
• At other times the old man would tell them stories of robberies he had committed in his younger days.
• Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance? - No, there's no way to tell.
• « Oh ! gardez pour vous ce que vous aviez à dire », interrompit madame Sowerberry.
• 'Oh, don’t tell me what you were going to say,' interposed Mrs. Sowerberry.
• I am at the end of my tell.
• But England's superior fitness told in the second half, with Delon Armitage, Manu Tuilagi and Chris Ashton (two) going over for tries to secure a bonus-point win.
• Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold[...]keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.
• Sir Gerald was moving slower; his wounds were beginning to tell.
• Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.
• Time will tell what became of him.
• All told, there were over a dozen.  Can you tell time on a clock?  He had untold wealth.
• Can you tell whether those flowers are real or silk, from this distance?  No, there's no way to tell.
• Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.
• He told her not to be frightened.
• Tell him to go away.
• But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[...]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
• Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
• Please tell me how to do it.
• I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
• Finally, someone told him the truth.  He seems to like to tell lies.
• “[...]Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. Oh, dear, there's so much to tell you, so many warnings to give you, but all that must be postponed for the moment.”
• I want to tell a story;  I want to tell you a story.
• Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.
• And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, / And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye / A couetous desire with his huge threasury.