Example sentences of "to have tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even more amazing , he is alleged to have told confidants before he died last month that , far from being the spoils of two decades of looting the Treasury , he had found the 400 tons of bullion just after the war in a northern province of the Philippines . |
| 2 | The Bank of England is understood to have told the Romanian authorities they will have to apply to the British courts to have bank accounts belonging to the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu frozen , writes Mark Milner . |
| 3 | He would like to have told her but he did n't dare . |
| 4 | Common sense ought to have told him that Marie 's reaction would be just like this : quiet and resigned . |
| 5 | We would have actually liked to have told her that the man was the Secretary of State for Wales and a member of the Cabinet ! |
| 6 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 7 | And Charlie was alleged to have told reporters : ‘ It was hardly a turn-on . ’ |
| 8 | Newman Hall , whose Christ Church , Westminster Bridge Road , was to many the epitome of Gothic extravagance , is said to have told F. B. Meyer 's biographer , ‘ Had I my time over again with my present knowledge , I would build a Workmen 's Hall at Westminster and use the surplus money to build three or four churches in the suburbs of London ’ . |
| 9 | Khomeini is reputed to have told his followers : ‘ The revolution is not about the price of watermelons . ’ |
| 10 | The American , Ronald Hendron , is said to have told the agents he could deliver Russian and Polish supplied uranium and atomic bomb triggers , as well as AK-47 rifles , grenade launchers , surface-to-air missiles and MiG jets . |
| 11 | I 'm going , ’ Mark Kettley , 28 , of Eldon Road , Marsh , Huddersfield , vice-chairman of the party 's Paddock ward , was said to have told friends . |
| 12 | Stirling appears to have told someone in R.A.F. Ops. about it , but of course not the right man . |
| 13 | You ought to have told her you were too busy , ’ Felicity said reproachfully . |
| 14 | The Express , by contrast , detects unsheathed Conservative blades : ‘ Tory knives were out for the BBC … the Prime Minister is said to have told friends : ‘ my views on the BBC 's coverage are not printable . ’ |
| 15 | Before driving in a drunken rage to her house , he is said to have told a friend : ‘ If she is there I am going to burn the house down and burn her down too . |
| 16 | Waller was said to have told the police that his own car and his factory in Fencehouses , Co . |
| 17 | But as the pressure increased the princess cracked and at one point is said to have told her solicitor : ‘ I ca n't stand anymore . ’ |
| 18 | When the separation was made public Mr Butner is reported to have told a friend : ‘ We got what we were after . |
| 19 | He was also reported to have told a white worker not to resign , as management was ‘ only after the blacks ’ . |
| 20 | In a moment of careless intimacy he is said to have told Camilla Parker Bowles : ‘ I love you … |
| 21 | In the recording the prince is alleged to have told her : ‘ I adore you . |
| 22 | But it was foolish of Flora to have told him so . |
| 23 | He said that I must be mad not to have told him . |
| 24 | Mr Lamont is said to have told the Premier : ‘ The game is over . |
| 25 | But whoever Squidgy and her chum are , nobody seems to have told them . |
| 26 | I would like to have told them both that on that occasion the crack had sailed over my head . |
| 27 | Nobbs also claims to have told his old mate Peter Tinniswood to make his first novel a comedy ; the result was A Touch Of Daniel , which later became the equally God-like I Did n't Know You Cared telly series . |
| 28 | In commissioning St Paul 's , Covent Garden , the Earl of Bedford is reputed to have told his architect , Inigo Jones , that he wished the building to resemble a barn , and the interior of the church was indeed extremely simple , consisting only of a chancel and a nave without arcades . |
| 29 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 30 | Nobody seems to have told him about his humiliation . |