Example sentences of "tell [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 2 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 3 | A few evenings later , in Russell 's alehouse , Ralph Bryant told Pascoe that as far as he was concerned , there was no reason why they should not sail on the Sunday following . |
| 4 | It turned out that the stranger worked for ICI and he told Haslam that Britain 's major chemical company was looking for mining engineers . |
| 5 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 6 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 7 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister told parliament that he was against freezing savings accounts or monetary reform which would devalue the internal rouble and cut the value of individuals ' savings . |
| 9 | In a supplementary question , another member told Parliament that many regional commissioners were ‘ crying out ’ for news of their activities to be broadcast . |
| 10 | The King , who had not forgotten the sermons of Andrewes , told Parliament that ‘ Princes are not bound to give account of their actions but to God alone ’ and that ‘ Parliaments are altogether in my power for their calling , sitting and dissolution ; as I find the fruits of them to be good or evil they are to continue or not to be . ’ |
| 11 | The situation deteriorated on June 18 when Ranjan Wijeratne , the Plantation Industries Minister and Minister of State for Defence , told Parliament that " from now on it is all-out war " . |
| 12 | Also on April 30 , de Klerk told Parliament that he had ordered the release of 933 political prisoners since 1990 , and that those still in prison would be freed within days . |
| 13 | The Finance Minister , Anne Wibble , introducing the budget , told parliament that the government 's fiscal policy was centred on promoting growth and development while ending economic stagnation . |
| 14 | Kuchma told parliament that Ukraine 's economy was in a worse state than that of any other former Soviet republic . |
| 15 | The NSF began to examine the rate of mental hospital closures after the junior health minister Tim Yeo told Parliament that 29 hospitals were to shut by 1997 . |
| 16 | She clung to Joe when he came home , and he spent most of his leave with her , though he went with Anne one day to see Sarah and her family , and told Sarah that Terry had her photograph pinned up above his bed . |
| 17 | In 1972 the official unemployment rate was under 4 per cent , and of those questioned in the Nuffield survey , only 5 per cent told interviewers that they were currently out of work . |
| 18 | He told Davidson that ‘ a Socialist Government would have an opportunity of learning their administrative duties and responsibilities under favourable conditions and that it was essential that their rights under the Constitution should in no way be impaired ’ . |
| 19 | Wolfgang 's condition had worsened , and he told Sophie that he had the ‘ taste of death ’ on his tongue . |
| 20 | Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her . |
| 21 | For the long vacation we told institutions that they could anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 22 | For the King not only told MacDonald that he would see the other party leaders , but said that he ‘ would advise them strongly to support ’ him . |
| 23 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 24 | Chamberlain told MacDonald that , in such circumstances , the financial crash would come before Parliament met , and it was therefore his duty to avoid it ; for which purpose the Conservatives ( and Samuel endorsed this for the Liberals ) would give him all their support in the present government or in a " reconstructed " government . |
| 25 | What else could the King have meant when he told MacDonald that he was ‘ the only person who could carry the country through ’ and that he , the King , would strongly advise the leaders of the other parties to support him ? |
| 26 | He told MacDonald that by remaining at his post with such colleagues as were still faithful to him , his position and reputation would be much more enhanced than if he succumbed ; the Prime Minister must come to some arrangement with Baldwin and Samuel to form a National Emergency Government which would restore British credit and the confidence of foreigners . |
| 27 | He told Lisa that before the operation , and for a few months after , she would have to wear a steel frame pinned to her head and connected to a rigid plaster jacket to hold her damaged neck in place . |
| 28 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 29 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 30 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |