Example sentences of "told [pron] [that] [pron] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I told them that we were going to leave the park , and go and get a nice cold ice-cream . |
| 2 | I told them that they were mistaken . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 4 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 5 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 6 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 7 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 8 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 9 | He told them that he was going to prepare a permanent home for them in God , the Father 's , house . |
| 10 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 11 | One student told me that they were watching and waiting . |
| 12 | When one morning she told me that they were going away , I ca n't say that it was a surprise . |
| 13 | Well a as soon as she gave me this erm protective thing to wear and and then told me that I was grown up and every . |
| 14 | A harassed young intern assisted by a cool , pretty nurse ( called Ruth , from Stanmore ) told me that I was bucking the statistical trend by having three fingers smashed between the knuckle and the phalangeal joint . |
| 15 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 16 | Later , as they were making their way through the bracken , Anna said casually , ‘ Sam told me that you 're leaving your job with Luke . ’ |
| 17 | When we last spoke , you told me that you were reading in bed until eleven-thirty , when you went to sleep , and your last sortie from the bedroom had been to the kitchen for milk at approximately ten-forty . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you remember what you said to me in this very room when I begged you to marry me and you told me that you were going to marry him ? |
| 19 | You see , again Ricky told me that you were doing , doing this sort of thing . |
| 20 | And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party , the Labour Party finished with him and did n't bother and anyw he he someone I do n't know who it was , it was n't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said , Well I I 'll do it . |
| 21 | Leslie told me that he was considering a further transfer to the Special Air Service . |
| 22 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 23 | He told me that he was waiting for me to return . |
| 24 | Mr. Docherty told me that he was sleeping rough either in his car or in a small tent . |
| 25 | In his last message the monster told me that he was going north . |
| 26 | ‘ He never told me that he was going to do a newspaper article and I just wonder where this leaves Jason and his legal advisers now as far as an appeal goes . ’ |
| 27 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 28 | I got in touch with Bloom and said that I thought the guy had talent and Bloom told me that he was having a wedding anniversary party in Soho , which is in the centre of London , and to give the group £20 and see what he was like . |
| 29 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 30 | She told me that she was wearing a blue hat and coat and that she was safely strapped in her pushchair . |