Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] have told " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his summing-up , Mr Justice Drake had told jurors to remember that the ‘ hurt ’ caused to Mr Donovan lasted less than a year and would end with a verdict in his favour . |
| 2 | Beryl Bainbridge has told how she finds plots for her novels by visiting the newspaper repository of the British Library in north London , looking out old daily papers for crimes and bizarre happenings . |
| 3 | Dr Jan Hulsker had told him that after Vincent 's departure from The Hague , Sien had given custody of the baby Willem to her brother , Pieter Hoornik , before going back to a life of casual prostitution and drink . |
| 4 | By a sort of transposed assumption based on post-war experience Acheson had told the National War College in December 1947 that for Greeks , Italians and others it had not been a free choice whether they accepted or rejected communism : because they were being coerced either by an internal organization financed by other countries or by external pressure to adopt a system of government which had the inescapable consequence of inclusion in the system of Russian power . |
| 5 | That was precisely the story Jeff had told her . |
| 6 | Molly did n't remind her that they must n't arrive too early because S. Kettering had told them not to . |
| 7 | ( Miss Hardbroom had told them to revise for it after breakfast . ) |
| 8 | Mrs. Fanshawe had told him nothing . |
| 9 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 10 | Voice of Lebanon radio reported on June 24 that Gen. Aoun had told Scheer that he was not demanding amendments to the accord , but simply a reconsideration of some of its provisions . |
| 11 | During that half-hour coffee break Jeff had told her all about Silvia and about how Guido was trying to break up the romance . |
| 12 | Cleveland and Yorkshire North MEP David Bowe has told campaigners that the EC could grant money for a feasibility study if the line whose future is threatened by British Steel 's decision to transfer Redmire quarry limestone from rail to roads from September was part of a regional transport plan … |
| 13 | Juliet told her mother briefly of what Miss Rose had told them , but said very little about the visit to Kate Maybury , or her own suspicions of her . |
| 14 | The Ketterings also had a young child , Signor Fixit had told her , little Violetta , who came ‘ as a bit of an afterthought ’ ; but that would n't prevent a separation , even a divorce , which , it seemed , Sandra Kettering welcomed . |
| 15 | According to the extracted deposition of one pupil , Doris Harrison , Miss Outram had told the older girls about the forced feeding of suffragettes in prison . |
| 16 | Brenda suddenly remembered something else that Mrs. Mallett had told her , that the motorist who had killed his daughter had been acquitted because the scientist had crumbled under the cross-examination ; something to do with the analysis of chips of paint found on the road which matched the suspect 's car . |
| 17 | ‘ I will come again , ’ Miss Cress had told — told , not asked — Alida , on the doorstep . |
| 18 | Home Secretary David Waddington has told parliament a special war crimes squad is being set up to investigate alleged atrocities committed by nazis living in Britain . |
| 19 | COLCHESTER sailor Richard Merriweather has told of the trials of the deep after completing the third leg of a round-the-world yacht race . |
| 20 | Mother Francis had told her that the bold Eve had n't written or telephoned , and that all the Sisters were dying to hear from her . |
| 21 | But I am mindful in the midst of my own troubles ma'am that you are not in good health for Miss Blagden has told me so and I am sorry to hear it and to think of you unable to leave your room and I am sorry too that the Rome winter does not prove as gentle as you had hoped . |
| 22 | Basking beneath the spitting jets of aromatic warm water he thought about what Blackrag Madonna had told him . |
| 23 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 24 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 25 | Sally-Anne reached the gates and walked up to the rectory , an eighteenth-century building which had once been beautiful , but like the area around it had gone to seed badly , although Dr Neil had told her that it was elegant , if shabby inside . |
| 26 | When Matey had returned on that fateful afternoon , Dr Neil had told her that he had proposed to McAllister , and that she had accepted him . |
| 27 | Presbyterian ministers from South Korea have told me of their daily dawn prayer meetings , many of them attended by thousands of people . |
| 28 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 29 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |
| 30 | But in the past Brenda Gooch has told how she hated being a ‘ cricket widow ’ . |