Example sentences of "he told the [adj] [noun sg] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
| 2 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 3 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 4 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 5 | He told the gathered community that he was committed to proving it was not active in South Ronaldsay . |
| 6 | He told the Daily Post that it was likely there would not be a court hearing until May . |
| 7 | President Mitterrand of France attended Papeete 's celebrations of 100 years as a municipality on May 16 , 1990 , when he told the local assembly that he would help the colonies " to erase the legacy of an underlying colonial past " . |
| 8 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 9 | With suppressed excitement and relief at the possibility of preoccupation , he told the Foreign Secretary that the crisis of the monarchy was upon them , that he ( Eden ) must go and read his own overseas correspondence on the subject ( which he had not apparently hitherto done ) , and that he must not trouble him ( Baldwin ) too much with foreign affairs just now . |
| 10 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 11 | Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season . |
| 12 | He told the 400-strong audience that ‘ a highly-trained workforce equals high productivity equals high profitability ’ . |