Example sentences of "tell [pron] that [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 2 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 3 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 4 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ One more thing — Matthew Choak told me that he went to Penzance on Friday night to see the film , Straw Dogs . |
| 6 | Dennis told me that he lived in North Oxford , but that was geographical hyperbole . |
| 7 | When he told me that he wanted to be an actor like Owen Jones , I was very surprised but instinctively excited and challenged . |
| 8 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 9 | And my sister told me that she met with him after Mass this morning and he gave her an envelope . " |
| 10 | Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago . |
| 11 | She endured his company , that was all ; he told himself that she behaved in all ways like a young lady : it would not have been proper for her to show more feeling . |
| 12 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 13 | At first she told him that she wanted to be near her cousin Freddy , in the Engineers . |
| 14 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 15 | She told him that he had to be successful and then she made it impossible for him . |
| 16 | He laughed back when I told him that I came from a poor barrio in Britain and that we were no longer referred to as people either . |
| 17 | I just told her that she looked like everyone else , although I 'm sure that was n't what she wanted to hear . |
| 18 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 19 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 20 | Numbers of young women have told me that they look upon life in quite a different light now that they learn that nature has not been so cruel to them , as to give them but the choice of a married life , in which probably all the highest aims of life must be sacrificed , and the wife reduced to the level of a breeding animal , or a life of celibacy . |
| 21 | Yes , your worships I wonder if I may assist the court o on behalf of er M Mrs erm Mrs er has told me that she thought at the time of the incident again was in fact , nearer to five o'clock than than , than four thirty and she was driving from Billington towards Clitheroe she had come through the traffic lights at the bottom of Accrington Road in Worley and she was proceeding along King Street in Worley er , towards towards Clitheroe and sh she has told me that at the time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road and yo i in fact had that confirmed to you by er , my friend er the the traffic was sufficiently heavy that in fact , the the traffic travelling in the direction of Blackburn er was wai was backed up to the traffic lights as far as the zebra crossing and beyond it and so as Mrs erm was travelling towards Clitheroe her view of the children on the footpath at the opposite side of the road was obstructed by the cars that were er , travelling towards Blackburn . |
| 22 | Burun Khan may have told you that we know of such machines , but do not concern ourselves with them . |
| 23 | ‘ Has anybody ever told you that you look like an older version of Jacqueline Bisset ? ’ |
| 24 | You should have told him that we pay for it by the gallon not by the year ! |
| 25 | ‘ They were n't like you when I was at school , ’ had been his amused reaction when she had told him that she taught in the village . |
| 26 | Later that evening she had told him that she came from Newcastle , that her widowed father had remarried and that she and her stepmother could n't get on . |
| 27 | A pair of partridges whirred across the road in front of her , and Winnie remembered that Ella had told her that they mated for life . |
| 28 | Rose , for her part , thought that McAllister talked funny , and when Sally-Anne had told her that she came from the United States of America she had stared at her as though she had said that she came from the moon . |
| 29 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 30 | Trying to explain her husband 's loathing of the Allies and all they stood for , Giovanna had told her that there had in fact been no German or even Italian troops in the monastery and that its destruction had been unnecessary . |