Example sentences of "tell [pron] that he " in BNC.

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1 When Charman first joined the band he told them that him ambition was to be as big as Marc Riley and The Creepers one day .
2 She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections .
3 Berle met with Canadian officials at the end of March 1944 , and told them that he liked their draft convention , but considered it a long-term rather than an immediate possibility .
4 As he had always succeeded in getting his own way , the workers had been inclined to go along with him , even when their instincts told them that he was wrong .
5 He told them that he did not like the company they were keeping — — presumably the DHAC — but he did participate .
6 The mayor told them that he could not add to what had been said in the statement about the agreement between the three housing authorities .
7 This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London .
8 He told them that he was going to prepare a permanent home for them in God , the Father 's , house .
9 The estrangement became even more profound when he told them that he was gay .
10 When I told them that he was a chemist , one boy asked , ‘ Could n't they get a proper teacher , then ? ’
11 He told them that he was answerable to Parliament alone when he made decisions and that it was his duty to take into account the wider interests of the public .
12 As soon as Edouard Balladur was appointed head of the new conservative government in March , he told them that he would be asking for sacrifices to clean up what he claimed was the worst economic mess France had known since 1945 .
13 She thought of the time George Galloway had come to her home while her husband was off work with badly bruised ribs and told them that he was giving William a week 's notice .
14 Lucien told them that he believed Jeopardy to be a shallow individual , an offence to the art of Vibrancy .
15 After the meal , Drago told them that he had recently completed a new instrument and that at midnight he and his colleagues were planning to play together , in order to invoke some ghosts .
16 He sat there until his eyelids began to droop , then phoned the switchboard and told them that he would be at his hotel .
17 Scottish Sectretary , Ian lang , told them that he could n't meet their demand , although he wo n't know how much money will be allocated to councils until the budget at the end of November .
18 He told them that he had separated from his Argentinian-born wife four years ago and that she had returned to Buenos Aires .
19 Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all .
20 Richard Hunt , former Keeper of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library and a considerable Medieval Latinist himself , once told me that he thought Sister Penelope the best translator from Latin in her generation .
21 Shortly after Vitalis finished his course , a teacher in one of the schools told me that he wanted to get married in Church .
22 I got in touch with Bloom and said that I thought the guy had talent and Bloom told me that he was having a wedding anniversary party in Soho , which is in the centre of London , and to give the group £20 and see what he was like .
23 In the course of my pastoral visiting , before I took a funeral service , I called on the dead man 's son , who told me that he fell out with his father at his wedding twenty years previously and that he was not going to the funeral service now !
24 ‘ One evening in September , ’ he started once more , ‘ Robert told me that he found himself with nothing much to do when he had finished an afternoon lecture on the international monetary crisis .
25 The taxi driver was a sharp-looking middle-aged man who told me that he was the landlord of the Dove bar in town .
26 He told me that he had once worked for Lipton 's Stores in London , very near my old school , Holloway Comprehensive .
27 Liam Clancy , a fellow Hogarthian , told me that he was one of the Clancy brothers , a group which has found success in New York with its romanticized versions of Irish songs .
28 Gerry told me that he had once run a showband , and played bass guitar .
29 Gieseking once told me that he was given a new short piece to learn .
30 Fagin drove into the cul de sac where I live , and told me that he had a permit for conducting his alleged legal trade .
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