Example sentences of "tells [pron] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells them that Clive and Alison have hired a boat in Poole . |
| 2 | Fairfax tells them that Claudia is dead . |
| 3 | He tells them that Claudia has written them a last message . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Alistair tells me that Faksimile Verlag is confident that its 980 copies will be bought soon . |
| 5 | Erm , somebody tells me that Sarah is erm doing very well but has had a foul cold ever since she 's been over there , is she very well now ? |
| 6 | Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops . |
| 7 | He tells me that Spurs have been in touch to say their computer was knackered ( bloody things , who wants em ? ) so there is a delay in sending them out , but we are getting some . |
| 8 | I thought it was a disaster but something tells me that Tod 's still hopeful . |
| 9 | Experience tells me that attacks on pornography quickly become attacks on the whole of lesbian and gay culture because the two are seen as one and the same . |
| 10 | ‘ Dr Mortimer tells me that Sir Henry will be completely better after some rest . |
| 11 | I have checked with our Information Services manager and he tells me that Wimpey did not take any photographs of military airfields prior to or during the war years . |
| 12 | Sir Robin tells me that Mr Kinnock is quite happy for this statement to be made public . |
| 13 | She tells me that Jack was a real piss-head , and was always having to borrow money off her husband when they went out on the town . |
| 14 | She tells me that Jamie has been caught in a drugs bust at the Cross Keys pub . |
| 15 | He tells me that attendances between three and five minutes , over the ten minutes allowed are common . |
| 16 | Tour manager Terry Coyle tells me that Texas was the main downer , playing three nights in front of audiences which would look embarrassing even at the Camden Underworld . |
| 17 | After all , what would you , as a reader — even as a reader sympathetic to language variation and unpersuaded by prescriptive manuals — be likely to make of an essay on symbolism which repeatedly tells you that things are " symbollic " ? |
| 18 | Confident that your market research tells you that peoples ' houses are overrun with mice , and having used technology from the nuclear industry to develop a better mouse trap , you still have to tell people about it . |
| 19 | He did not tell me of his coming to Bourani as a man tells something that chances to occur to him ; but far more as a dramatist tells an anecdote where the play requires . |
| 20 | As Othello tells him that Cassio had even acted as a go-between in their courtship , Iago appears surprised — ‘ Indeed ! ’ — and takes refuge behind a series of evasive answers — ‘ Honest , my lord ? ’ |
| 21 | He tells her that America is very hot but he is having a nice time . |
| 22 | When Poirot tells her that Hastings has remarked that the house looked haunted she assures them that if there is a ghost it must be a friendly one , because she has had three escapes from death in as many days so she must bear a charmed life . |
| 23 | It also tells us that women never get to the top . |
| 24 | Knowledge of the world tells us that houses which contain living rooms do not usually contain bars . |
| 25 | The Venezuelan poet Juan Liscano sits by the sea and tells us that Europeans ‘ tend to classify us as exotic birds-parrots , or toucans … ’ |
| 26 | Finally , the question tells us that A's object was to save the leader ; it does not tell us whether his object was also to save himself . |
| 27 | Dorothy tells us that Wordsworth wrote the poem ‘ long after ’ , as was his usual custom . |
| 28 | He tells us that Baldwin later told a friend : ‘ Only time I was frightened . |
| 29 | This tells us that Potnia had a sanctuary dedicated to her in some part of the Labyrinth at Knossos , since this temple — and only this one — was referred to in antiquity as the Labyrinth , at least as far as Crete was concerned . |
| 30 | A Greek myth tells us that Arachne , a young woman living in Lydia , was famous for her skills in spinning and weaving . |