Example sentences of "tells [pers pn] that [pron] do " in BNC.
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1 | My experience tells me that we do not all have all the necessary skills to do all these jobs well — it is often a hit and miss affair , with much poor practice . |
2 | It did n't er it is a difficult for me because I do n't have the figures er but er Mr er my assistant who er er did do the detailed work , er tells me that it did n't provide as much traffic relief to the A sixty one as did a western relief . |
3 | Alcoholism is a disease that tells you that you do not have it . |
4 | That 's right , all we 've got here is that although there , there is a high degree of migration , the wage differentials are not er diminishing because we do n't have perfectly mobile resources , like are theory tells us that we do have . |
5 | Although the 1992 results are not public , a highly-placed source at USL tells us that they did make a small profit last year ( on revenues of $91m ) . |
6 | How is it that we have blindly come to think that animals and other creatures have no inner life when their every action tells us that they do ? |
7 | One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set . |