Example sentences of "[conj] told [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 I mean Maggie Thatcher came in and told them whether they
2 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 ’ .
3 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 .
4 Yes , I er , I went down and told them but they have n't pu they have n't put it back in .
5 So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack .
6 Two days before he tortured Doe to death , Mr Johnson hugged and embraced his future victim , and told him that they should join sides .
7 They seemed surprised and told him that they had been burning their rubber boots .
8 The defendants wrote to him and told him that they had decided to pay him a pension of £200 a year and that he was at liberty to enter into any other employment or enter any business , ‘ except in the wool trade . ’
9 No that 's right , as I say but erm anyway then after that when I left at say sixteen , you see , er er er a friend of ours who was a railway clerk at Needham Station came and told us that they were taking on girls on the Railway Company and would I like to do it and so of course I had to pass exams and er actually , can I read some notes that
10 Not only did Brown Owl go on living at Longreen and being their Brown Owl ; the Pack won an unexpected new friend in Sir George Phillips , who , when he heard how they had saved the plane 's pilot from disaster in the bog , suddenly turned out to be not ‘ crabby ’ at all , as Mr. Gordon had always made him out to be , but told them that they could use the Longreen Park meadow for just as long as they liked as a reward for their bravery .
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