Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife failed to persuade the judges to include him amongst the prisoners released in the celebrations of the coronation of Charles II , and in her bitterness told them that her husband was being denied justice because he was a tinker and a poor man . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 3 | When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day . |
| 4 | He told them that we were a very ancient family in Palestine and were much respected . |
| 5 | So I told them that we were going to leave the park , and go and get a nice cold ice-cream . |
| 6 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 7 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 8 | After the first clash , when the crowd was halted in front of the police cordon , some of the women had argued with the police and told them that they too were victims of the ‘ system ’ . |
| 9 | Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery . |
| 10 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 11 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 12 | They consulted their street map but , before they could work out their route , the little girl told them that they had to go down the hill , over the bridge , past another church , turn to the right and they would come to the church for which they were looking . |
| 13 | One of the ARA stewards then approached these young men and told them that they would not be allowed on the march if they carried Anti-Nazi League placards . |
| 14 | And repeating the well-tried lie he told them that they too could be gods and would never die . |
| 15 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 16 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 17 | At a meeting in January at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond , Washington with Sun vice-presidents Eric Schmidt and Carl Ledbetter , Microsoft executive Paul Apritz told them that they faced a business decision . |
| 18 | Mr Mitsotakis told them that they had won 90% of what they wanted , not the 60% they had won before . |
| 19 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 20 | I told them that they were mistaken . ’ |
| 21 | The padre told them that they must not think that theirs was a wasted journey . |
| 22 | He told them that they would have three options . |
| 23 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 24 | She told them that she had ‘ done ’ the house for the past five years , and hoped she could go on doing it . |
| 25 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 26 | When Nenna told them that she had urgent business on the other side of London and that she would have to ask whether Martha and Tilda could stay the night , Rochester accepted without protest , and they went over , taking with them their nightdresses , Cliff records , the Cliff photograph and two packets of breakfast cereals , for they did not like the same kind . |
| 27 | She told them that she and Mike were going to be married very soon and they could have a look at her wedding dress as it was nearly finished . |
| 28 | They consulted a doctor who told them that there was very little that could be done for a rheumatic attack . |
| 29 | The sums of money were enormous and I told them that there would be no more money once it had been spent . ’ |
| 30 | He told them that there was definitely good progress on all fronts . |