Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [pron] have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Muhammad Ali , the Deputy Chief of Police , from a town with no Magharba or Zuwaya , told them they had only a little quarrel : they could easily settle it themselves ; if the police intervened it would become more bitter ; they would be wise to make peace ( sulh ) and not to call for judgement . |
| 2 | The family called him when Clare started to complain of chest pains in the late afternoon but he did n't come out ; told them she 'd just strained something ; rest and painkillers . |
| 3 | But Mr Curry told them he had specifically asked to take the debate as there were many sheep farmers in his Skipton and Ripon constituency . |
| 4 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 5 | In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings . |
| 6 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 7 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 8 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 9 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 10 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 11 | When I complained to one of the newspaper 's senior editors , he told me he had just rejected an article highly critical of me and ray position . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me he had once nearly gone in for psychiatry . |
| 13 | Barney sniggered then continued , ‘ Selwyn Hopkins told me he has just bought a motorbike . |
| 14 | One girl told me she had even thought family planning clinics were where a woman went with her husband and children to plan their future together . |
| 15 | When asked what the problem was , her friends told me she had just been assigned to teach in a distant , rural middle school . |
| 16 | I do n't know if this was true , but she told me she had only slept with the man once . |
| 17 | Of course , I told you I had too much on my plate to be able to continue our correspondence , and I hope this is the reason you stopped writing . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Well , what did you expect ? ’ she bit out , ‘ I told you I 'd never cooked before ! |
| 20 | blinked at me blearily as I told him we had better ring the hospital . |
| 21 | When I told him we had recently come up from Southampton he said , " Gee , I would n't go to sea in that little tub for double my wages . " |
| 22 | Pilger told him they had better get together for a serious talk the minute he got off the plane . |
| 23 | Kate told him what had just happened in Jason 's office . |
| 24 | I thought that if I told him what had really happened he might not let me go again and I wanted to see Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Cops ones that were coming soon . |
| 25 | So I told him he 'd better go , because by this time I was bubbling a bit and I wanted to kill the man : I was n't really prepared to lose any time over hitting a court welfare officer . |
| 26 | I told him he 'd better tell his friends , or his girlfriends , that when they call at our house if they do n't give names , they 're not talking to him ! |
| 27 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 28 | Dr Francis Odling-Smee , a lecturer at Brunel University , Middlesex , said his father , when in his late 70s , told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life . |
| 29 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 30 | He loved soccer and could n't remember baseball ; neither could he remember California , except for a vague recollection of sunshine and a white house and what seemed an enormous swimming pool , although Clare laughed and told him it had really been quite small — for LA . |