Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] told [pers pn] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 2 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 3 | Someone who has been training horses for years once told me that the most important thing is to keep your youngster ‘ thinking forwards ’ . |
| 4 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 5 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 6 | Mr Stage said : ‘ Staff there told us that the equipment and particularly the surgical instruments and incubators would save lives . |
| 7 | A Stourbridge resident working in Kidderminster library subsequently told me that The Slug was the nickname for the Stourbridge Town branch train . |
| 8 | Austen Chamberlain stiffly told them that the meeting was unprecedented and irregular , but it was left to Birkenhead to denounce them all for impertinence , stupidity and disloyalty . |