Example sentences of "and told [pron] that he " in BNC.

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1 In this very pub , one night , and told everyone that he was the Wimbledon poisoner .
2 Fagin drove into the cul de sac where I live , and told me that he had a permit for conducting his alleged legal trade .
3 His wife answered and told me that he was out on a call but she 'd give him my message .
4 He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too .
5 He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done .
6 A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for .
7 Pen had hung flags on the balcony of the Casa Guidi — one French , one Italian — and told her that he was paid in scudi to give to the war if he did his lessons well .
8 He relaxed her and told her that he quite appreciated her anxiety and fear , and the fact that she was experiencing so much pain .
9 He had held her in his arms and told her that he loved her , and she had never doubted him .
10 After they ordered , Wickham toyed with a table knife and told her that he knew where the ones which had been sent to her and Tavett had come from .
11 Leith had been at G Vasey Ltd for two months when Sebastian , with his usual exuberance , came home from his travel agent 's job and told her that he was flying off to India on Friday for a holiday .
12 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 .
13 This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London .
14 She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice .
15 He sat there until his eyelids began to droop , then phoned the switchboard and told them that he would be at his hotel .
16 In the following year a BBC man who came to Bishopthorpe to have a brains trust in the house was shocked to discover that there was no television set in the house and told him that he was cut off from the experience of millions of his countrymen .
17 In East Tyrone , s UDR started the day on a happy note when the Commanding Officer called the Administrative Officer to his office and told him that he was to be promoted to Captain .
18 One of the high points in the life of Ellen Garwood , a wealthy Texas widow and author , was the day she sat with Reagan in the Oval Office ( ’ we had Sanka ’ ) and told him that he ought to get rid , first , of the Sandinistas , and second of the secretary of state .
19 Then Pasternak 's office called him and told him that he had flunked the test .
20 But he saw Baldwin on the Sunday morning and told him that he had no doubt that Curzon would be chosen , although his own turn would come in due course .
21 I telephoned him as soon as I had read the article , and told him that he is facing a very heavy fine for talking to the Press without my permission .
22 People laughed , and smiled , and told him that he should be more serious .
23 For , by Monday 10 December , on the same day that Birkenhead told Derby of the plot , Baldwin saw the King and told him that he had decided not to resign .
24 God spoke on three February mornings to John Reeve , and told him that he was to be the prophet and his cousin was to be Reeve 's mouth .
25 Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie …
26 Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc .
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