Example sentences of "told [pron] [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He told them that he was going to prepare a permanent home for them in God , the Father 's , house . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Six months later my grandmother told me that I was going to join my parents and that she , too , was emigrating . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Leslie told me that he was considering a further transfer to the Special Air Service . |
| 11 | Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn . |
| 12 | He told me that he was waiting for me to return . |
| 13 | Mr. Docherty told me that he was sleeping rough either in his car or in a small tent . |
| 14 | In his last message the monster told me that he was going north . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I said that I understood she came from the Continent , and she told me that she was born in Denmark . |
| 19 | She told me that she was wearing a blue hat and coat and that she was safely strapped in her pushchair . |
| 20 | Is it not time that those pensioners , including the one who told me that she was keeping warm during the day by clutching a hot-water bottle because she could not afford heating bills , were given a decent state pension as of right , without the humiliation of a contributory test , which involves means-testing for those who are in greatest need ? |
| 21 | I 'm sure somebody told me that she was working with the trainee at er |
| 22 | anything about coming , and yet Jenny came up and told me that she was coming on Friday , er before I got that letter , got that letter the next day |
| 23 | ‘ Ubaldo told me that someone was going behind his back , ’ she repeated . |
| 24 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |
| 25 | I told you that I was punned today did n't I ? |
| 26 | I told you that there was going to be some available but |
| 27 | Celie finally stood up to Albert after Shug told him that she was taking Celie with her to Memphis . |
| 28 | She suddenly realised how tired she was , but she made an effort and told him that she was travelling to Rome to join her aunt and uncle . |
| 29 | Tight-lipped , she told him that she was going back to Arden post-haste . |
| 30 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |