Example sentences of "told his [noun] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract . |
| 2 | He was questioned about his earlier activities , and told his interrogators that he had been encouraged in his attack on royal policies by Catherine 's confessor , Father William Peto , and by John Fisher , bishop of Rochester [ qq.v. ] , who had given him a tract he had written about papal primacy . |
| 3 | On 8 December he told his ministers that he had blundered by treating the election as a referendum and would not make the same mistake again . |
| 4 | He told His disciples that He was the vine and they were the branches , so that His life flowed in their lives , His life flows in our lives . |
| 5 | Arthur Ramsey told his daughter that he chose this colour ‘ because anyone could throw a coffee-cup at the wall without it showing ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Pinder told his wife that he would be staying with his sister Helen who lives in Retford , to avoid wasting a lot of time travelling . |
| 7 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 8 | Sadat was shocked ; later he told his wife that he could not believe that the Shah would have allowed any foreign power such influence over his country 's affairs . |
| 9 | Fr Butler told his bosses that he no longer wanted to be a priest , but he has still not formally quit . |
| 10 | But the Prince stubbornly told his mother that he had already resolved to play polo again the moment his injuries had healed . |
| 11 | All was uneventful until one child came home and told his mother that he had met a ‘ funny old man ’ in the cutting , ‘ dressed in funny old clothes ’ . |
| 12 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 13 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
| 14 | He told his father that he had to go . |
| 15 | At the time he told his son that he thought that he had made a discovery which would prove comparable in importance with those of Newton . |
| 16 | In a letter to Zborowski dated 27 February , he told his dealer that he was going to work at No. 13 Rue de France . |