Example sentences of "to tell [noun] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 When Sarazen saw him , he decided he gently had to tell Dan that he did not think he was going to be able to carry his bag .
2 There remained the question about whether to tell Merymose that he had seen Surere .
3 Amy popped her head round the door to tell Kathleen that they had found some ID on the track and the police had brought his parents in .
4 She did not want to tell Connor that she had a private plan in mind ; it was such a very long shot , and might come to nothing .
5 He 'd decided to tell Sanchez that something had come into the market , something both he and Kemp would want .
6 Then she went upstairs to tell Giovanna that she thought she would not be able to stay for her Italian lesson , because she felt so ill , and took herself painfully back across the Grand Canal to her temporary home .
7 It was Penelope , to tell Sophia that she had suddenly been asked to go to dinner at Rupert Stonebird 's that evening , but that she would n't have time to go home and change first .
8 I 'd better get some coffee she 's going to tell Joe that you charged her this .
9 It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police .
10 ‘ It would n't be very nice , would it , if I had to tell people that I had a mean niece . ’
11 Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London .
12 Letters carne almost every day from John and although he talked about Hitler 's invasion of Russia and other war news , he always remembered to tell Anne that he loved her .
13 She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night .
14 We revealed yesterday that another of Courtney 's victims is still too terrified to tell police that he attacked her .
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