Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 2 | She told them that a man had knocked on the door of her home in Hereford claiming to be from the council . |
| 3 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 4 | The idea for this book began in the back of a taxi , the night a friend told me that a famous Scottish football manager had enjoyed rampant sex in a television studio with a well known TV presenter . |
| 5 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 6 | I opened the front door , and the merest sniff — choking and sulphuric — told me that a chimney was on fire , and it was n't ours . |
| 7 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 8 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 9 | At a bridge above the fall a friendly sign said " Keep out , private property " , while another sign told me that a bull was loose with cattle in the field I had to cross . |
| 10 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 11 | One of those accused told me that a proper legal defence cost him only £140.00 with legal aid , which he got back because they won . |
| 12 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 13 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 14 | Then she got more excited and told me that a Mrs Boatman had called from the National Insurance and was ever so attractive and charming . |
| 15 | Simon told me that a school |
| 16 | If someone told you that a major ensemble of some twenty bronzes has recently been permanently installed in a public park hard by Wall St and that its subject is an allegory of greed , would you believe it ? |
| 17 | He told him that a mitre could be a candle-snuffer . |
| 18 | Once , when stationed at Pulham in Norfolk , his commanding officer told him that a naval airship was drifting from the North Sea entirely out of control , as both its engines had broken down . |
| 19 | Then on 22 July someone rang Roberts anonymously and told him that a lorry-load of aluminium sulphate had been tipped into the water supply . |
| 20 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 21 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 22 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 23 | The curator of that museum told him that a book was being written that would transform everyone 's perception of Modigliani , and this led Martens to Noel Alexandre . |
| 24 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
| 25 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 26 | ‘ We told her that a mud hut would do , but she said no , she 'd build something pukka . ’ |
| 27 | While there , it is alleged , a neighbour called Kessler told her that a photograph of her and Crabb had appeared in an East German newspaper . |
| 28 | Lawyer D told her that a jointly-owned house would become the sole property of her husband after her death , and she could not in any way guarantee her share of the money invested in it for her children . |
| 29 | The latter told her that a transfusion was not usually necessary and , in response to her inquiry said , that other , less effective , procedures were available . |
| 30 | Her new sense of time told her that a scant three minutes had passed since landing . |