Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] them [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way to stop them is to get in first or persuade them that it 's a big mistake ; either way you have to fight . |
| 2 | Ask them why they are apologising , or inform them that they do n't need to : ‘ Why are you apologising ? ’ , |
| 3 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 4 | I stood there and promised them that I would stay alive until I had killed the monster . |
| 5 | Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility . |
| 6 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 7 | He later reiterated the warning and told them that the police would have to see that the prohibition order was enforced . |
| 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 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 10 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I gave them their full due , repeating all that my sister-in-law had said , and told them that I would hear from my brother himself that evening , then paid for my groceries and made my escape . |
| 13 | She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice . |
| 14 | I arose and spoke and told them that I could not and would not do it . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | The card was written by the Reverend Donald McQueen and told them that the Laird of Raasay had sent his own boat for them ; the reverend gentleman himself arrived shortly afterwards ; ‘ an elderly man , ’ says Boswell , ‘ with his own black hair , courteous and rather slow of speech , but candid , sensible and well-informed . ’ |
| 17 | Anne and Heywood Hill , of the bookshop in Curzon Street , lived at number 10 Warwick Avenue and told them that the lease next door was for sale . |
| 18 | At this point Suor Eusebia intervened and told them that she knew how to open it . |
| 19 | At the end , the nobleman called them charlatans and beggars and told them that if they were his , he would have them all flogged and their noses cut off . |
| 20 | He sat there until his eyelids began to droop , then phoned the switchboard and told them that he would be at his hotel . |
| 21 | Mhm , and told them that you would n't be your present arrangement |
| 22 | Even though we had n't won at Cov since 1976 , it felt like today we would begin to shut the critics up and show them that we truly are contenders . |
| 23 | We parted at Paddington , and assured them that they would have to change trains at Oxford . |
| 24 | A little later , he met the leaders of the Provisional IRA in Dublin and assured them that he would be delighted if he could cut it down to ten or eight years . |
| 25 | I left out any reference to brutality in our lives and assured them that I was well and healthy , which I was . |
| 26 | The commanding officer had given them more details of the crash and assured them that Whitey would have died quickly , although his body was badly burned . |
| 27 | A senior detective at Marbella said last night : ‘ This lady told our detectives that she had no idea there was that much concern in London for her daughter and assured them that she would now return home as soon as possible . ’ |
| 28 | It is unsure of its policies , and has been slow to recruit members and persuade them that the time for talks has come . |
| 29 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 30 | Later the same day Douglas , Duke of Hamilton — frustrated past belief turned up at the Foreign Office in London and informed them that he was seeking an urgent audience with the King . |