Example sentences of "tell [pron] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 2 | Gen Enrile went on : ‘ I told them they would be treated fairly , justly and humanely but they must be man enough to take the consequences of their actions . ’ |
| 3 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 4 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 5 | I prepared the orchestra very carefully , particularly for his jokes and set speeches , which I told them they must be amused by . |
| 6 | Muhammad Ali , the Deputy Chief of Police , from a town with no Magharba or Zuwaya , told them they had only a little quarrel : they could easily settle it themselves ; if the police intervened it would become more bitter ; they would be wise to make peace ( sulh ) and not to call for judgement . |
| 7 | I got in touch with the publishers and told them they would have to find another translator . |
| 8 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 9 | ‘ They always said they thought no one was going to turn up , but we told them they had nothing to worry about . ’ |
| 10 | Thanking the residents for their comments he told them they should write to East Hampshire District Council with their objections and to send a copy to the parish council . |
| 11 | I told them they would have to be more amicable than that . ’ |
| 12 | A few moments later she appeared again and told them they could go in . |
| 13 | Zack knew this was not true , but he was aware he could have a very dangerous situation on his hands if he told them they were beginning to show cracks , and could not take more than another six days of numbing boredom and inactivity . |
| 14 | So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days . |
| 15 | Brandishing a knife taken from the kitchen , the gang took all three to separate bedrooms and told them they would be stabbed if they did not reveal where their valuables were . |
| 16 | In those fearful few moments hands clutched good-luck charms and lips moved in unashamed prayer , until the clunk of the undercarriage as it folded into the belly of the aircraft told them they had made it . |
| 17 | Thornton , who prefers to follow a gut feeling , told them they had to move fast . |
| 18 | They had all met teachers ‘ like that ’ on teaching practice : the ones who told them they needed their heads looking at for wanting to go into teaching , who were sarcastic to the pupils and disparaging about almost everything . |
| 19 | At a meeting in January at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond , Washington with Sun vice presidents Eric Schmidt and Carl Ledbetter , Microsoft executive Paul Maritz told them they face a business decision . |
| 20 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 21 | Far from helping the men help themselves to their rights , neither the Salvation Army nor the housing agencies told them they had any . |
| 22 | When they returned to the office , a stiff-and-starchy female clerk told them they would have to wait . |
| 23 | Silver waved the map in front of them and told them they were stupid . |
| 24 | The department had hoped to reach flexible service agreements with many voluntary bodies , but the city 's lawyers told them they either had to give grants ( guaranteeing nothing in return ) or set binding contracts . |
| 25 | I told them they did n't know what it was like . |
| 26 | But I told them they did n't want to worry , I would pay for the grin'stone . |
| 27 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 28 | Their friends told them they were crazy , it sold for a nickel and nobody , they discovered , had the curiosity to buy it although it did make all the local Greenwich Village news-stands . |
| 29 | Only the thought of the pleasure she would have in telling him off when he told them they were not welcome in Spain kept her seated and in any way civilised . |
| 30 | In the next town the Abbot politely told them they were not wanted . |