Example sentences of "to tell [pers pn] [that] [pron] was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was great jubilation in the family when he returned home to tell them that he was to start in the Despatch Department in two weeks ' time , in the huge new office in Edge Lane where Eileen worked . |
| 2 | The previous year , he had left the attic at 8 a.m. and had not returned until after 11 p.m. , having failed to tell me that he was intending to spend the day with Maman , and why . |
| 3 | ‘ Bumface came here to tell me that he was going to fight the War Office and that he was not having the WO Instruction for me to report forthwith to the Ski Battalion at Bordon . |
| 4 | There was a knock on my door and my mother came into my room to tell me that she was going to work . |
| 5 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 6 | He was working in his room and I went in to tell him that I was going to spend the night with Miss Bond — I was upset , you understand . |
| 7 | Yeah , so er , he would n't of know you see , cos I only found out today , I would n't of , I have n't had a chance to tell him that I was coming here , but I thought well I 'd call on me way home and see how you are |