Example sentences of "tell i that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 2 | Inspector Blakelock , he 's the Assistant Police Liaison Officer , told me that every human being has a unique fingerprint and no two types of blood are exactly the same . |
| 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 | They told me that no one had ever been hurt like this ; but was n't it only a question of time ? |
| 17 | The two of them told me that no formalities were required , that I would simply be received in a small private room , and that there would even be the possibility that I would be given a glass of sherry — which presented some difficulty since I am teetotal . |
| 18 | A man with a clipboard told me that the cutting of the tenons is a dangerous practice . |
| 19 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 20 | Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’ |
| 21 | The official told me that the form was not enough and that I needed a letter from my dad saying he lived alone . |
| 22 | However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay . |
| 23 | Tom Kenny , bearded , bespectacled son of the founders , told me that the shop stocked one hundred thousand books about Ireland , or by Irish authors . |
| 24 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |
| 25 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 26 | A green metal notice told me that the abbey had been built in 1474 , by O'Donnell , Prince of Tyrconnel , and his wife Nuala . |
| 27 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 28 | When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material . |
| 29 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 30 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |