Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] that [pron] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 2 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 3 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 4 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 5 | ‘ She told me that you phoned her and asked for a meeting in town . ’ |
| 6 | He told me that he meant me no harm , but was a magician , who had made the music play around me , and wished to have my hand in marriage and live in my castle , with me and my brother , in peace hereafter . |
| 7 | Nicola 's husband told me that he thought you had something to do with the murder . |
| 8 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ I was playing in a particular game and did not think I had done anything spectacular at all when I was approached by Heffernan who told me that he wanted me for the Ireland team to play Australia in the Compromise Rules series , ’ recalls McGilligan . |
| 10 | He told me that he fired his gun at the dogs and they ran away . |
| 11 | ‘ He told me that he loved me and that was it . ’ |
| 12 | He told me that he liked my playing and that he would give me a ring when I got back to Milwaukee , and about three to four months later we actually formed a band and went on tour . |
| 13 | ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis . |
| 14 | In my letter to Eliot , enclosing my own article , I had expressed the hope that , in contrast to Rowse , who told me that he considered my letter ‘ ineffective ’ , might approve of it . |
| 15 | When I probed a bit , rather reluctantly she told me that she understood he 'd had an ‘ illness ’ , and was a regular out-patient at a local hospital . ’ |
| 16 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 17 | She told me that she felt she could do this , and proceeded to do so . |
| 18 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 19 | When Liz told me that she thought your boss wanted to marry you I knew I had to step in and stop that nonsense once and for all , ’ he grated , his strong arms tightening possessively about her . |
| 20 | When you asked me to undertake a review of the management of the Prison Service , I told you that I thought my recommendations would be easier for me to make than for you to implement , but you assured me you believed the climate was ready for some radical change . |
| 21 | I told you that I loved him , that 's God 's truth , I love him and I tell you they might have made such a place just for him . ’ |
| 22 | I told you that she felt her life was ended . |
| 23 | What would he say if she told him that she fought him because she was afraid that if she did n't she would fall in love with him ? |
| 24 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 25 | His doctor had checked him out , told him that he had nothing to worry about . |
| 26 | I told him that I thought he was much too gentle in his handling of the miners and the owners , and especially the latter , and that there were a lot of things he ought to have said . |
| 27 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 28 | ‘ So I suddenly told him that I wished I had a son . |
| 29 | ‘ Where are you going , Rose ? ’ he asked in a tone that told her that he knew he had gone too far but she continued on her way . |
| 30 | He told her that he respected her . |