Example sentences of "tell [pron] [conj] they had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 2 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 3 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 4 | ( Two surviving compositors , both of whom began work in 1909 told me that they had been among the last recruits . ) |
| 5 | His assailants next told him that they had been given three pounds each ‘ to do you up tonight ’ by the ‘ drug squad ’ detective with whom he was already unpleasantly familiar . |
| 6 | They seemed surprised and told him that they had been burning their rubber boots . |
| 7 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 8 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |