Example sentences of "the [noun] told [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 2 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 3 | The Minister told us that clause 12 provided for the Secretary of State to take into account representations made by those who administer the pension scheme in question . |
| 4 | One look at the gatehouse told us that way would be suicide , so we launched a full-scale attack to distract them from you and get Guy over the wall . |
| 5 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |