Example sentences of "when [pron] told [pron] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I told them that he was a chemist , one boy asked , ‘ Could n't they get a proper teacher , then ? ’ |
| 2 | And when I told them that in my country there were millions just like me , they did not believe me , but just smiled . |
| 3 | When I told them that I was born in a similar bed and had become a doctor afterwards they were more convinced . |
| 4 | When I told them that you 's got about three and mixed up |
| 5 | When I told him that if we were to be married I would n't ask my father for a penny he … well , he threw me out . ’ |
| 6 | When I told him that Howard Moss — whom I never met but whose poetry I greatly admired — had already published several of my poems , Dana appeared surprised and a little put out . |
| 7 | A youth tried to sell me a Socialist Worker and seemed confused when I told him that in my experience the words were diametrically opposed . |
| 8 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 9 | When I told him that I would also like to buy a smaller Popova , he objected , ‘ No , I 'm keeping this because it 's small and it can always be hung anywhere , but these big ones … where can they go ? ’ |
| 10 | He appeared satisfied when I told him that I did n't have a criminal record and shouted for somebody to come and show me upstairs . |
| 11 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 12 | ‘ I guess that you have been to see Mrs Laura Lyons , ’ he said , and when I told him that he was right , he went on : ‘ When we put together everything that each of us has discovered , I expect we shall know almost everything about this case . ’ |
| 13 | When I told him that one of the most important was esparto grass , his grave face lit up , because Faber 's , it appeared , purchased consignments of it to meet their paper needs . |
| 14 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |
| 15 | The strangest of stories ( And of course when I told her that , she just threw me out of the house , my own Mother … well , Goodnight Mother , I can tell you ) were treated as entirely credible . |
| 16 | I do n't think the woman in the New York Avis office believed me when I told her that I wanted to hire a convertible . |
| 17 | When I told her that Umbarak was still alive and sometimes visited London , she asked , ‘ Why does he not come to sit with Zayed ? ’ |
| 18 | But her anger changed to fear when I told her that I was going after Duke Michael . |
| 19 | When you told me that Mrs Lyons was getting a divorce , I realized that she hoped to marry Stapleton . |
| 20 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
| 21 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 22 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 23 | ‘ Was she lying , then , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ when she told me that nobody taught her to multiply or to read ? |
| 24 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 25 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 26 | He was shocked when she told him that the gardener came three times a week and did not offer to mend it . |
| 27 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 28 | Likewise Churchill , who would have agreed with her sentiment when she told him that without the Board of Education , the Board of Trade was ‘ powerless ’ to make ‘ a better worker , a better man , or a better citizen of the young worker . ’ |
| 29 | When she told herself that the concern could be genuine . |
| 30 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |