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Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000)


Found 79 matches (50 printed). Sorted by order of appearance (case-insensitive).
Number of matches per 100,000 words: 23.94

No : Line : Concordance 1: 142: As far as historic sources can tell us, there has always been a certain regulari 2: 1276: they are also real, they also tell the story of human race./^t/And whether we f 3: 1382: te of time. Most of them don't tell the actual truth about a certain product ava 4: 1752: selves looking for somebody to tell him about our thoughts we have experienced s 5: 1894: de people through their lives, tell that parents cannot exclude their own child 6: 2113: ed. Humans are expected not to tell stories created by their vivid imagination b 7: 2113: their vivid imagination but to tell the truth. Liars would go to any lengths to 8: 2125: easiest way. If a person would tell that changes for better are impossible in th 9: 2127: k to health. Never should they tell the truth. Each of us is different as far as 10: 2129: condemned. If a child does not tell his or her parents about a low grade he or s 11: 2129: or bother parents about it and tell them the truth?/^t/Lying is probably the bes 12: 2131: ey concern our privacy. We can tell the truth only our close friends and family, 13: 2131: know quite well. We should not tell the truth about our private lives, that is w 14: 2143: ther reason for a child not to tell the truth. Examples of a child's lying menti 15: 2152: ave once sat, a friend asks to tell him or her something about it. We know that 16: 2153: efore there is every reason to tell a "white lie" and our behaviour in such a si 17: 2155: y were true. It is sailors who tell them sitting by a bonfire, for example. In s 18: 2185: s really better to lie than to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. O 19: 2238: ds, lovers, or family members, tell each other favorable, though not always sinc 20: 2321: al decisions whether to lie or tell the truth in the light of further consequenc 21: 2321: hysician is always expected to tell the truth he will never tell a patient about 22: 2321: o tell the truth he will never tell a patient about his inevitable quick death. 23: 2333: as bed. That is why we do not tell our parents about failed exams, and we do no 24: 2335: ordingly, nobody would dare to tell the teacher that his lessons are boring and 25: 2335: uld it be wise or advisable to tell the boss that his abilities are insufficient 26: 2339: end justifies the means' would tell that unfortunatelly, the world we live in is 27: 2401: time to time, and the fibs we tell are not harmful and destructive but many a t 28: 2521: at all lies and the people who tell them in the same way. One has to differentia 29: 2567: me people still expect them to tell the truth, even if it is difficult to swollo 30: 2645: oes not mean that they have to tell lies. So lying in this way proves to be immo 31: 2646: /her health. Doctors refuse to tell their patients the whole truth, because they 32: 2651: o fulfill a need. Children may tell their parents about tale-tell stories. For e 33: 2651: oes not mean that they have to tell lies. So this is again a bad point of lying 34: 2653: ing in a wrong way, they still tell lies. On one hand lies may cause benefits, b 35: 2734: e right is a situation when we tell a white lie in order to prevent embarassment 36: 2734: It is always more advisable to tell a fib while refusing an unwelcome lunch invi 37: 3211: hat it is better to calculate, tell the time, work out your holidays and even sh 38: 3241: a warm welcome since he could tell you about different places, countries. Nowad 39: 5052: of informative programmes that tell us what is going on in the world. For people 40: 5153: tch television programmes that tell them about the secrets of adult life and int 41: 5379: sideration opinion polls which tell them about their advantage over their rival 42: 5640: aks are measurable, no one can tell to what extent advertisements influence our 43: 6345: n sake we should be honest and tell the truth: advertising is harmful! 44: 6417: per-disrete.On television they tell me that Mentos is a fullness of life and a n 45: 6671: zing how much the language can tell us about the country it is spoken in./^t/For 46: 7231: s answer is not satisfying. To tell the truth, apart from 'qualified thieves' no 47: 7572: are not experienced enough to tell the difference between truth and falsehood. 48: 7836: or a walk and smell the grass. Tell your children that in order to get milk a co 49: 8085: be ostensibly objective but to tell the truth no one can avoid a complete object 50: 8439: from only one angle - they can tell of the USA as of a rich country with no poor

Complete PICLE corpus of essays by Polish advanced EFL students (330,000) end of search.

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Number of matches per 100,000 words: 23.94

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