Example sentences of "told [pron] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 2 | Surely someone told them that it rained in Scotland . |
| 3 | They would have married sooner but had to wait for her divorce ; Pamela Chrimes told me that it took some time to obtain the evidence of adultery which was then necessary . |
| 4 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 5 | One glance at Hannah 's meadows told me that it had very real prospects because it did not have the lush , emerald green appearance of chemically fertilized land . |
| 6 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 7 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 8 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 9 | She had never farmed before , and she told me that it did not come easy . |
| 10 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 11 | ‘ I told him that it had been great . ’ |
| 12 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 13 | The teacher , by now worn down by Mrs Singh 's refusal to accept Jeetinder 's limitations , told her that it had been written by ‘ a highly intelligent girl ’ . |
| 14 | She told her that it had been suggested to her that she should remain behind to rest , but she did not consider her darling Thomas would have approved of this . |
| 15 | The Bank told us that it does not reject applicants for loans unless it has some firm reason ( such as serious doubt about ability to repay ) . |
| 16 | During my recent visit to Libya with George More , a top Scots lawyer , the British community told us that it does not want sanctions or reprisals against the Libyan regime . |