Example sentences of "[vb past] us that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On November 1 they told us that normal Christmas arrangements would apply — that we would work for most of the holiday period — then they dropped this bombshell on November 22 and said we would be off for two weeks . |
| 2 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 3 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 4 | When we asked her more about her playmate , she told us that Dohti lives in a gypsy caravan , had black hair and eyes and was 11 years old . |
| 5 | They told us that in Soc . |
| 6 | You never told us that ! |
| 7 | You never told us that before ! ’ |
| 8 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 9 | The same Wordsworth , much-mocked , thought himself back to an innocent vision , told us that grass is green and water wet because he had reached beyond familiarity to some primal wonder that these things were so and not otherwise , to some mythic sense that he was giving or finding the words for the things , not merely repeating . |
| 10 | And we knew how frightened she was , how disturbed , because Luke told us that — told us fresh from her bed and hardly able to speak for laughter . ’ |
| 11 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He told us that before . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created . |
| 17 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 18 | A few Opposition Members told us that smoking costs the national health service £437 million a year . |
| 19 | The Under-Secretary of State said in her discussions with the Select Committee that she did not have any examples of evictions , yet the Association of Metropolitan Authorities told us that 24 per cent . |
| 20 | Erm and Mike told us that new reports commi commissioned by the City Council and the new owners claimed there is no danger . |
| 21 | The operator told us that rubbish is smouldering at a considerable depth and it would take a lot of work to put it out . |
| 22 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 23 | Some , you told us that . |
| 24 | And they always say the same things and you think , oh you told us that yesterday . |
| 25 | I says you 're the man told u give us the key for Black 's Row and told us that |
| 26 | When we arrived in Navarradonda where the body was taken , the local police assured us that ground searches had been conducted with dogs the day after Jeremy 's disappearance . |
| 27 | Fellow cruisers who frequently enjoy holidays at sea assured us that Royal Caribbean is by far the best cruise line to choose . |
| 28 | And that was probably why I think he showed us that banner . |
| 29 | This showed us that integration saves time and duplication , and makes the programme more interesting for the students . |
| 30 | He informed us that Eskimo sexual licence goes far beyond any idea of free love or promiscuity . |