Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [adv] [that] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 2 | A Munich brewer told me derisively that Weissbier was a local term from Swabia ( to the west ) . |
| 3 | ‘ When I told you earlier that Alan Dysart had once worked for me , you seemed … surprised . |
| 4 | In France , meeting with the head of Ariola Records , the company responsible for distributing Virgin in that country , Branson listened with interest as the managing director told him excitedly that Ariola were about to pull off an enormous coup by signing Julien Clerc , France 's Frank Sinatra . |
| 5 | The Doctor had known many of the great leaders in the history of Earth and his instincts told him immediately that Witcher was not one of them . |
| 6 | I just hope his source is more reliable than the Yard chap who told him confidentially that Theo Sykes killed Puddephat . ’ |
| 7 | I told him also that Britain 's only strategic weapon would be the minimum deterrent constituted by Trident . |
| 8 | He told us too that Rabbie Burns was n't a real poet and he could tell by my face that I did n't like that or him . ’ |