Example sentences of "[vb -s] told [pers pn] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one has told them that your hotel is eight miles from the nearest town , which in fact is only an overgrown village . |
| 2 | My own specimen is in tropical conditions but I have seen young specimens for sale in a tank along with Sterlet and medium-sized Orandas and a retailer I know has told me that he has a customer with an extremely large ( 12″ ) Asiaticus kept in totally cold water with common Goldfish . |
| 3 | Nigel has told me that he 's going to go Indycar racing . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A Downing Street statement in the Prime Minister 's name said : ‘ King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has told me that his government has made available £1.5 billion for the Al Yamamah government-to-government defence programme . |
| 6 | A friend has told me that you 've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife . |
| 7 | ‘ My colleague , Dr Mackintosh , has told me that you will not talk to him , ’ Lange went on . |
| 8 | ‘ Maurice has told me that you are not completely happy in your work . ’ |
| 9 | Many television viewers were alarmed at the Forest boss 's ageing appearance on a BBC interview this week , and Clough admitted yesterday : ‘ My wife , Barbara , has told me that I 've got uglier and older . |
| 10 | The lease runs out in two months time but the landlord has told me that I am not entitled to a new one because the lease is an excluded one . |
| 11 | But as the reader will be aware , during the past decade or so , the courts , building on a series of decisions which quite properly and logically held ineffective a number of ingenious and entirely artificial schemes devised for the manufacture and allowance of losses or expenses which were never in fact incurred , have sought to create and apply to transactions conferring tax advantages for which the legislature has made provision a doctrine of ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ , the general effect of which is that even though the citizen follows to the letter that which Parliament has told him that he can do in order to attract the fiscal consequences which Parliament has statutorily decreed will follow if he does it , nevertheless , whatever Parliament may have said shall be the consequences , the courts will and must decline to give effect , not to what he has done , but to the fiscal consequences which Parliament has provided , unless he demonstrates that there was a ‘ legitimate business purpose ’ for his action . |
| 12 | Nobody has told him that he need not have come . |
| 13 | She has told you that I was kind to her in the summerhouse , though I 'll assure you I was quite innocent then as now , and I desire you to keep this matter to yourself . |
| 14 | I expect Poole has told you that I have searched London for the chemicals I need . |
| 15 | The customer has told you that he wants £3000 for the car — the actual value at 57,000 miles is half that . |
| 16 | Lady More has told us that her husband would have been pleased that this society has been formed , thus ensuring that the BCR will not be forgotten . |
| 17 | And unless has told us that you 're coming , then you do n't get on the flats . |
| 18 | ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident . |
| 19 | Stagecoach has been more honest and straightforward than that and has told us that it will bid for every part of the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister has told us that it is a good agreement for Britain . |
| 21 | It is in Amaryllis 's best interests and she has told us that she is certain of happiness with you … ’ , |
| 22 | Well my head man 's told me that everything 's okay and he 's eat up well this morning and , and , he 's doing well . |
| 23 | Joel is n't a Catholic , as you know , but he 's told me that he believes there 's a Providence not so far away from us , really just above our heads if we could see it , that wants things to be the way they 're eventually going . |
| 24 | She says Chris , that 's her in office , she 's told me that I 'm off the subsidy now , she says I 've been on it twelve week and er |
| 25 | He 's told me that you 're now senior partner of Far East Swift … ’ |
| 26 | I said Well I 'm sorry you 'd better refer to my solicitor who 's told me that you need a court order . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's told me that it 's nothing she regrets . |
| 28 | And he 's told me that it 's first gear , right . |
| 29 | She 's told him that she 's got this other man . |
| 30 | Erm his sleeping she 's told him that she 's got this other man |