Example sentences of "told [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 2 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 3 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 4 | Last Friday , Mr Krenz told parliament that he never enjoyed privileges under the old regime of his mentor , Mr Erich Honecker . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister told parliament that he was against freezing savings accounts or monetary reform which would devalue the internal rouble and cut the value of individuals ' savings . |
| 6 | Also on April 30 , de Klerk told Parliament that he had ordered the release of 933 political prisoners since 1990 , and that those still in prison would be freed within days . |
| 7 | In 1972 the official unemployment rate was under 4 per cent , and of those questioned in the Nuffield survey , only 5 per cent told interviewers that they were currently out of work . |
| 8 | Wolfgang 's condition had worsened , and he told Sophie that he had the ‘ taste of death ’ on his tongue . |
| 9 | Yeah she told Christie that I were going with her . |
| 10 | For the long vacation we told institutions that they could anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 11 | For the King not only told MacDonald that he would see the other party leaders , but said that he ‘ would advise them strongly to support ’ him . |
| 12 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
| 13 | What else could the King have meant when he told MacDonald that he was ‘ the only person who could carry the country through ’ and that he , the King , would strongly advise the leaders of the other parties to support him ? |
| 14 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 15 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 16 | Just at that moment when everyone was crossing their fingers on her behalf , so she looked up and told Jim that she felt she would do better to play out at an angle . |
| 17 | A wheezing cough at the other end of the line told Kelly that it was Bob Morrow . |
| 18 | When Mary came in from work the day after the row she told Mum that she and Albert had had a talk and that she was going to stay with his parents for a bit while Albert sorted out a house and furniture and the paraphernalia of married life . |
| 19 | I do n't like it and I told Will that he should reduce it to one act with Hamlet throttling the silly bitch immediately ! |
| 20 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 21 | When Dustin told Brooks that he was up for the part in The Graduate , Mel said , ‘ But you 're an ugly little rat . |
| 22 | * The Shah told Walters that he had no intention of abdicating . |
| 23 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 24 | At lunch , Sir Henry told Holmes that he had decided to go to Baskerville Hall . |
| 25 | And David told Pattie that he that was his son that rung up . |
| 26 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 27 | And if that was n't a big enough blow to Travis 's hopes , Rosemary , in the cold light of morning , told Travis that she would not be accepting any more invitations to the flat opposite for supper either . |
| 28 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 29 | In early 1922 Eliot told Pound that he was trying to read Aristophanes , apparently on Pound 's recommendation . |
| 30 | I think he was rather taken aback because my understanding is that he told David that he could get him out of the contract . |