Example sentences of "tells [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When clients have gone to a firm and believe that they have been treated badly , they tend to complain against the firm , not the engagement partner , and are surprised when the Institute tells them that they can not do so , ’ said Elwyn Eilledge , head of the working party . |
| 2 | Their self-image tells them that they are ‘ controversial ’ , so they act this out . |
| 3 | Society tells them they 're rubbish , because they ca n't find jobs , but it also tells them that they are better than the blacks . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , while Reece and Cool feel that on balance they are not , Anthony , Dearden and Bedford ( 1984 , p. 362 ) continue to insist that their experience tells them that they are , and Hayes and Garvin ( 1982 ) obviously agree . |
| 5 | Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers , designer clothes and good stereos . |
| 6 | Christian teaching tells them that we are all curably sinful — which given the choice is a relief . |
| 7 | He tells them that we are getting somewhere now and it 's time we heard your version but there 's no need to hurry because we have all the time in the world . |
| 8 | If they are able to remember the unpleasant incidents of their youth , their logical mind tells them that it was wrong and that the abuser was at fault . |
| 9 | No one will buy British food because somebody tells them that it is better than their own . |
| 10 | He tells them that I have not gone , |
| 11 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm and anybody who tells me that they 're gon na get one and arrives by train at the course whatever their excuse I would be suspicious . |
| 14 | Terry Bunce , from the Flying Club , tells me that they have a wings night every year for the new people , and as it was also the 25th anniversary of the Ulster Aviation Society they decided to invite the veterans along . |
| 15 | Mollie ca n't believe her new shape and tells me that her colleagues ca n't get over the transformation either . |
| 16 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 17 | Then , as he drank the rest of his coffee , he said , ‘ Mr Woodall tells me that their veterinary nurse is going to leave . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed , however , that she was not , for she suddenly switched the conversation by saying , ‘ Your husband tells me that your temporary housekeeper is leaving soon and your maternity nurse is being replaced by a young nanny . ’ |
| 19 | Surprisingly , I find that all my reasons for postponing giving birth still apply : I do n't particularly like children ; I value my independence , the freedom to come and go , the open doors ; I want to write , and literary history tells me that my chances of succeeding as a writer and a mother are pitiful ; I hate and fear the nuclear family , the stifling atmosphere , the exploited wife and mother , the generation gap . |
| 20 | A gardening friend tells me that it is possible to grow pineapples from their tops , but I have no idea how to do it . |
| 21 | It comes in the evening after a busy day and tells me that it is past my bed-time . |
| 22 | He laughs as he tells me that it was very pretentious , but that when there were eleven gardeners ‘ it was OK to live in you know , especially during the war when you had all the people from Russia and Poland and so on ’ . |
| 23 | He tells me that it is a dead cert , we can make an absolute killing by taking a percentage of the profits , and charging pitch holders a rip-off rent . |
| 24 | M ; y niece , Alison , tells me that it 's very much ‘ the in-thing ’ to be ‘ going solo ’ these days . |
| 25 | I have been in correspondence with him since then and he tells me that it would not be possible to give enforcement ’ high priority ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A niece of mine living in tells me that it 's picking up slightly , the property market . |
| 28 | Mrs Barnet tells me that she expects her husband when she sees him . |
| 29 | Mrs Ross tells me that she later discovered that several years earlier near Paisley signal box two trains had collided with loss of life . |
| 30 | My informant tells me that she feels sure that the earlier event is still ‘ earthbound ’ and repeated the action . |