Example sentences of "tell [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean Maggie Thatcher came in and told them whether they |
| 2 | ‘ I told them that they were barred from the club from now on . |
| 3 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some only found out when their supplier told them that they could no longer buy tetra unless they could certify that it was going to be used in a ‘ non-dispersive manner ’ — ie not as a solvent even in a closed system . |
| 7 | A few people sat on the floor ( no chairs in the drama studio ) and jumped straight to their feet again as an outbreak of jeering laughter told them that they 'd got it wrong . |
| 8 | They consulted their street map but , before they could work out their route , the little girl told them that they had to go down the hill , over the bridge , past another church , turn to the right and they would come to the church for which they were looking . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And repeating the well-tried lie he told them that they too could be gods and would never die . |
| 11 | Hurrying out with his little band through the inner and outer baileys , at the gatehouse their guards told them that they had heard rather than seen the Regent 's force riding between castle and town some time before . |
| 12 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 13 | At a meeting in January at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond , Washington with Sun vice-presidents Eric Schmidt and Carl Ledbetter , Microsoft executive Paul Apritz told them that they faced a business decision . |
| 14 | Mr Mitsotakis told them that they had won 90% of what they wanted , not the 60% they had won before . |
| 15 | Handsome , smiling and smartly suited , he was an immediate hit , all the more so when their mother told them that they had been married that morning . |
| 16 | I told them that they were mistaken . ’ |
| 17 | The padre told them that they must not think that theirs was a wasted journey . |
| 18 | He told them that they would have three options . |
| 19 | I mean Paul said , with the blokes down in London and he , he ga gave them the pills and sa told them that they go back home and so he did . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm planning to knock this meadow before the evening is out , ’ he told them before they left and joked , ‘ You 'll have to harden your hands before you leave . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , I er , I went down and told them but they have n't pu they have n't put it back in . |
| 22 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 23 | So I went in and told them and they 'd given me wrong sack . |
| 24 | Women from orthodox families told me that they were not allowed to wear them . |
| 25 | I did not run into a lot of people who told me that they had been unexpectedly impressed by Mr Kinnock or unimpressed by Mr Major . |
| 26 | Martin Martin notes that on a small rocky island to the south of Skye there is ‘ a great quantity of scurvey-grass , of an extraordinary size , and very thick ; the natives eat it frequently , as well boiled as raw : two of them told me that they happened to be confined there for the space of thirty hours , by a contrary wind ; and being without victuals , fell to eating this scurvey-grass , and finding it of a sweet taste , far different from the land scurvey-grass , they ate a large basketful of it , which did abundantly satisfy their appetites until their return home ’ . |
| 27 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 28 | ‘ Somebody told me that they saw the Bad Seeds recently and the show was being recorded , and that Blixa had had his volume knob turned down the whole time ! |
| 29 | Many students told me that they only joined the League because it was the correct thing to do at middle school and at university they maintained their membership for the social functions the League organised , such as outings and dances . |
| 30 | One student told me that they were watching and waiting . |