Example sentences of "has told " in BNC.
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| 1 | and when Siegfried swears to marry and save Odette after she has told him how the wicked Von Rothbart turned her into a Swan ( Swan Lake , Act 11 ) . |
| 2 | Hoskin 's chairman , Barry Hoar , is putting on a brave face and has told shareholders that ‘ your directors view the future with confidence . ’ |
| 3 | Although he will take urgent steps to impose a new contract , which they have rejected , he has told the doctors ' and dentists ' pay review body that he is prepared to tackle any problems arising in the first year . |
| 4 | New pay recommendations are due in the new year and , although Mr Clarke has told the review body that there must be pay restraint , ministers appear likely to press for the award to be met . |
| 5 | With the bulk of surgical patients consisting of urgent conditions , from cancers to vascular disease , Richard Wood , Professor of Surgery , has told Dr Grant that such surgery can not be halted . |
| 6 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 7 | He has told the court that he has spent the best part of the last two and a half years preparing for this joust . |
| 8 | He has told the jury that he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts , who was annoyed by the company 's failure to ‘ pay out ’ on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington , ex-chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , has told the jury he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts who was annoyed by the company 's failure to pay out on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 10 | Although Teague has resumed light training , he looks certain to miss England 's match against Fiji on 4 November and has told his club that he does not expect to be fit until the middle of next month . |
| 11 | Nobody has told me before to pack up , why are you bringing it up today ? ’ |
| 12 | I expect auntie has told you everything and you have been too busy to come , but please come now . |
| 13 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 14 | PowerGen , backed up by representations from more than 70 independent generating companies , has told ministers that National Power will monopolise the market . |
| 15 | The Kremlin has told four Soviet republics to drop controversial new laws on elections . |
| 16 | Mr Hans Modrow , the new prime minister , has told East Germans to be prepared for ‘ unpopular measures ’ which will be agreed by the government today . |
| 17 | Islamabad has told Afghan rebel groups to move arms dumps out of populated areas of north-west Pakistan where a huge explosion killed upto 40 people last week . |
| 18 | Mr Cecil Parkinson , the Transport Secretary , has told BR that all subsidies for commuter services on Network South East — currently £141 million a year — will be removed by March 1993 . |
| 19 | The Commonwealth Games Council for England has told archers to end a 30-year tradition of competing with a South African organisation . |
| 20 | The Commonwealth Games Council for England has told archers to end a 30-year tradition of competing with a South African organisation . |
| 21 | Jon Webb , the Bristol full-back , has told the England manager Geoff Cooke that he still wants to play international rugby . |
| 22 | Hi-Tech , which has told the court it is willing to collect the £100-per-decoder viewing fee because it does not wish to ‘ kill the goose that lays the golden egg ’ is now restricted to fulfilling its existing orders for decoders pending the further hearing in the New Year . |
| 23 | A close friend , who said he was too frightened to reveal his name , has told the drinks trade newspaper , the Morning Advertiser : ‘ My life could be in danger if I say too much but I have my own idea what the murder is all about . |
| 24 | The Conservative Party 's new chairman , Chris Patten , has told Marxism Today of his interest in the German idea of a ‘ social market ’ , which believes it is possible to unleash capitalism 's efficiency but also to keep it under the supervising eye of society : to combine the engine of individualism and a communal conscience . |
| 25 | But he has told former executives to extract themselves from jobs they managed to find in the Aquino era and hold themselves ready . |
| 26 | All the men who worked to shovel radioactive waste off the roof of the reactor , he has told British viewers on Thames Television 's ‘ This Week ’ programme , are probably dead or dying . |
| 27 | Mark has told you guys many times that European Governments and European plant people ai n't gon na like that one little bit , particularly when their own Far East markets are heavily protected . |
| 28 | A friend has told me that you 've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife . |
| 29 | ‘ My colleague , Dr Mackintosh , has told me that you will not talk to him , ’ Lange went on . |
| 30 | He gets up early in the morning , saddles his ass , cuts the wood for the sacrifice , and taking two young servants and Isaac with him , he sets off for the place of which God has told him . |