Example sentences of "tell she that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She wanted to know where we all met and I told her that it was through the vibe . |
| 2 | Dad told her that it was settled but he warned her she must never borrow again He warned Frankie and me as well . |
| 3 | The signpost outside the post office told her that it was ten miles to Abbotsfield and twenty-five to Bristol . |
| 4 | It was for Signora Kettering and her English upbringing told her that it was unthinkable to open letters addressed to someone else ; and yet as she came down the stairs and met the driver she had been taken , as she felt sure she was meant to be taken , for Signora Kettering . |
| 5 | He told her that it was limited to secure £60,000 and would be released in a short time . |
| 6 | Her instinct told her that it was something far more worrying . |
| 7 | Thomas told her that it was the Hunters . |
| 8 | It is admitted that there was er such a letter and er on this occasion er Miss evidence is that having heard that the landlords consent for the assignment still had n't been obtained , asked Mr again whether it was possible in view of that , er to withdraw from the contract and er it is case that again Mr repeated the advice he 'd given to Mr two days earlier and told her that it was not possible and that again is denied . |
| 9 | Feeling surprised that she was no nearer solving the enigma of Mark Vila , she tried to find something to take her mind off things , toying with the idea of running a couple of black and white Marlene Dietrich movies , but a glance at her watch told her that it was already late in the afternoon . |
| 10 | He had often told her that it was a social disadvantage having the sort of wife he could n't take anywhere , but he dropped this line when she started appearing beside him at literary lunches and old school do 's . |
| 11 | Clara did not enjoy her sausage , for it was burned black on the outside and raw in the middle , and her mother had told her that it was impossible not to get worms from raw sausage meat , but the taste of the damp mince with its bitter crust remained a strong reminder of illicit pleasure . |
| 12 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 13 | There is also a suggestion here that her analysis of the relationship between letter and sound can be unsuccessful : -oge is a highly unusual pattern in English ( gamboge : is there anything else ? ) and that should have told her that it was unlikely to be right . |
| 14 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a big place for one person — two , ’ she corrected , remembering how he had told her that it was Peter 's home too . |
| 16 | But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ? |
| 17 | How could he tell her that it was all a mistake ? |
| 18 | No I did tell her that it was completely confidential . |
| 19 | Clarissa enquired from her bed if the gentleman had a black shirt on , and Charles was in the middle of telling her that it was n't a man at all , but a woman , well a girl , and quite a pretty one too if treasonable , when the record , a 78 of course , ended . |
| 20 | Nor to tell her that it was women like her who prevented girls doing well in sciences . |