Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] told him " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 2 | The inspector found lower ability classes were two years ahead of similar groups in other schools and observed teachers achieving what other schools had told him was impossible . |
| 3 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 4 | He could be what his gaolers had told him he was . |
| 5 | East Clwyd coroner , David Jones , said Foreign Office officials had told him Mr Furse , of Nerquis Hall , Nercwys , near Mold , had been involved in an incident at Parati on May 30 . |
| 6 | Mr Chicken said that during interview Taylor claimed that mart officials had told him it would be all right to bring the pigs in . |
| 7 | Mr Chicken said that during interview Taylor claimed that mart officials had told him it would be all right to bring the pigs in . |
| 8 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |
| 9 | The car 's owner , Salford University student Michael Afilaka , said a friend leaving the flats had told him someone had jumped on his A-registered vehicle . |
| 10 | Mr Turner , of South Humberside , said : ‘ I was so pleased when he called all his neighbours had told him about it . |
| 11 | Bernard jones had told him , even if he had n't known . |
| 12 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 13 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could name names and that elected members had told him they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 14 | The doctors had told him the truth about his health and , though he was not doomed as a man , it must be the end of his political life . |
| 15 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 16 | One man , Hamad Hasan al-Harash , had a notebook in which he wrote down important events as he came across them : some were reports of what very old men had told him thirty or forty years ago ; others were things he had read ; others still were things which had happened to him . |
| 17 | His father 's men had told him of Marion Aluinn . |
| 18 | The local police had told him that Mr Steen possessed such a vehicle , and he was just making a routine check on the whereabouts of the car at that time . |
| 19 | The court might equally have said that the defendant also realised that what he was doing was obstruction , since the police had told him so . |
| 20 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 21 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |