Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 2 | They consulted their street map but , before they could work out their route , the little girl told them that they had to go down the hill , over the bridge , past another church , turn to the right and they would come to the church for which they were looking . |
| 3 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 4 | Mr Mitsotakis told them that they had won 90% of what they wanted , not the 60% they had won before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 7 | At a meeting in January at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond , Washington with Sun vice-presidents Eric Schmidt and Carl Ledbetter , Microsoft executive Paul Apritz told them that they faced a business decision . |
| 8 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 9 | She told them that she had ‘ done ’ the house for the past five years , and hoped she could go on doing it . |
| 10 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 11 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 12 | I suddenly told them that I had to push , the urge was absolutely OVERPOWERING , quite unbelievable . |
| 13 | she told them that , that 's mine , she told them that I did n't think much of this and I thought it was a rip off |
| 14 | When I told them that you 's got about three and mixed up |
| 15 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 16 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 17 | Lucien told them that he believed Jeopardy to be a shallow individual , an offence to the art of Vibrancy . |
| 18 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 19 | After the meal , Drago told them that he had recently completed a new instrument and that at midnight he and his colleagues were planning to play together , in order to invoke some ghosts . |
| 20 | He told them that he had separated from his Argentinian-born wife four years ago and that she had returned to Buenos Aires . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He told them that he did not like the company they were keeping — — presumably the DHAC — but he did participate . |
| 23 | One man told me that they left a rough sort of ramp at one side of the corn , and the horse slid down this on to the middlestead . |
| 24 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 25 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 26 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 27 | The Crickets told me that they enjoyed the show . |
| 28 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 29 | Brand told me that they 'd been friendly from way back and when I leaned on him a bit he admitted that they 'd had a thing going but it had been broken off two or three years ago . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |