Example sentences of "[noun prp] tell [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Silajdzic told the UN human rights meeting that this was so . |
| 32 | On July 23 Kuwait told a meeting of the UN Compensation Commission meeting in Geneva that the country 's war losses were between $50,000 million and $100,000 million . |
| 33 | In 1974 , visiting the northern region of the Maramureş , one of the districts richest in the everyday survival of peasant customs and dress , Ceauşescu told a group of folk-artists that adhering to traditions was one way of developing a communist country : ‘ I appreciate … these true works of popular art as an expression of your commitment to maintain the dress and customs of [ your ] ancestors , as well as to weave them tightly with that which is new , … because only in this way will we build a strong socialist society . ’ |
| 34 | On Oct. 3 , Bhutto told a press conference in Islamabad that if she was returned to power , she would use constitutional and political means to force the President to resign . |
| 35 | On Sept. 10 UN Assistant Secretary-General James C. Jonah told a news conference in Nairobi that he apologized for statements made by several UN officials accusing the government of obstructing relief operations in the south . |
| 36 | Mr Beaton told the court that he had been asleep in his cab when two men with Glasgow accents woke him up by placing a bag over his head . |
| 37 | Miss Poraway told the men who were unloading the trestle-tables that she would require a good one , because she ran the book-stall and always had . |
| 38 | Sheriff Scott told the youths they had appeared in court on a very serious charge , but appeared to have learned from the experience . |
| 39 | US senator Daniel Moynihan told a US Senate foreign relations subcommittee hearing on Sept. 13 that Ne Win was " nothing more than an Asian Noriega " , a reference to the then Panamanian leader , Gen. Manuel Noriega , whom the US government accused of involvement in the illegal drugs business . |
| 40 | On 31 October 1988 , Minister Colin Moynihan told the House of Commons that there would be ‘ no adverse or long-term effects ’ . |
| 41 | Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb . |
| 42 | Pat told the Careers Officer : ‘ I 'm going on to become a professional footballer ’ . ’ |
| 43 | Adams told the court he had been out drinking but had no more than three pints . |
| 44 | Dr Cunningham told the press conference : ‘ There is virtually no protection for water consumers in these proposals at all . ’ |
| 45 | Robin Wright told the jury : ‘ Mick told me he wanted Linda to make love to me . |
| 46 | Weary of Israel 's ceaseless importuning , it recently produced a long and scholarly ‘ confidential report ’ which concludes that , since Arafat told the UN General Assembly last December that he recognised Israel 's right to exist and ‘ renounced ’ terrorism , the PLO has not been speaking with ‘ forked tongues ’ and its declarations have ‘ for the most part been consistent , regardless of the media in which they appear . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ President ( Mikhail ) Gorbachev floated the idea , ’ Mitterrand told a joint news conference with the Kremlin chief after the two men met in Kiev . |
| 48 | Mitterrand told a press conference that NATO should not " preach " to others on how to organize their internal affairs . |
| 49 | Angered by Hoover 's decision to switch 400 jobs from Dijon to Cambuslang , Mr Mitterrand told a television audience that the 11 other nations would eventually force Britain to stop what he described as unfair competition by opting out of the social chapter . |
| 50 | Last June President François Mitterrand told the assembled autocrats of French-speaking Africa that their countries should become more democratic . |
| 51 | Maria de Lourdes Sequeira Dias from Portugal told the parliament of the problems of Portuguese pensioners : ‘ The slice of the national cake available to pensioners in Portugal is decreasing . |
| 52 | Mr Spencer told the jury : ‘ For a period of two years , from about the age of 13 onwards , the girl found herself the target of sexual and physical abuse from her stepfather . |
| 53 | In May the DHAC was back at the Guildhall , where Matt O'Leary told the corporation that its members ‘ filled him with nauseation ’ . |
| 54 | On Nov. 12 the French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas told a meeting of EC Foreign Ministers in Brussels that references to GATT had " no place in a declaration which focuses essentially on the future " . |
| 55 | The French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas told a meeting of the WEU on June 5 that the RRF would create " many problems " , and he criticized NATO 's failure to " define political objectives " before " deciding on force structures " . |
| 56 | Killearn told the duke that the laird intended to write |
| 57 | Yacoubou told the Group how student demonstrators were arrested and sent to prison in remote areas , where they were ill-treated and denied any contact with their families . |
| 58 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 59 | In June 1960 , following this acceptance of ‘ realities ’ in domestic policy , Wehner told the Bundestag that the SPD also accepted the main elements of Adenauer 's foreign policy , such as NATO and EEC membership . |
| 60 | On May 10 Kolingba told an extraordinary meeting of the RDC executive committee that multipartyism required a gradual preparation and education of the population and was in no way a guarantee of democracy . |