Example sentences of "told [pron] that [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 2 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 3 | Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided . |
| 4 | Later , Lucien told himself that this shadow had been of the future . |
| 5 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 6 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 7 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 8 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |