Example sentences of "[verb] tell [pers pn] [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evan loved to tell you that it began with a minor domestic row . |
| 2 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 3 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 4 | Her lips parted to tell him that it did , but hesitation seemed to have become a periodic tendency , afflicting her like hiccoughs . |
| 5 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |