Example sentences of "tell [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lord Fraser told the committee that a consultation paper on the Government 's review of eligibility of criminal legal aid , the costs of which have spiralled faster than civil costs , would be published in the summer . |
| 32 | He told the committee : ‘ Somebody 's after revenge . |
| 33 | Assistant planning director Phil Hardwicke told the committee that the day when 146 heavy lorries unloaded at Park Foods was a ‘ one-off situation ’ . |
| 34 | In delight , I told the therapist . |
| 35 | Dos Santos told the opening session of the Angolan People 's Assembly on March 20 that the session would introduce the framework for multiparty democracy . |
| 36 | Mrs Lewis told the opening of an inquest at Liverpool Coroners Court that she found her husband hanging half out of bed , frothing at the mouth , two days after the crash . |
| 37 | Alan Murphy , 25 , from Alexandria , Strathclyde , told the Princess he was exercising to put on weight as he had lost six stones after breaking his back in a car crash . |
| 38 | He told the major he feared that in retiring to the palace he was imprisoning himself and would never be able to escape back to the real world . |
| 39 | There were already signs that told the motorist he was approaching , say , the Newport Pagnell or Watford Gap service areas . |
| 40 | But Yeo told the NISW/ Community Care conference , ‘ Residential Care : The Way Forward ’ , the government would not set up a permanent forum on residential care . |
| 41 | Daisy Mules told the rally how she had been on a Dublin student contingent at the march which led to the Bloody Sunday massacre . |
| 42 | Ethiopian transitional government representative Lencho Leta told the rally in Asmara on Sept. 1 that a standing committee on Eritrea formed recently by Ethiopia 's Council of Representatives was on a fact-finding mission in Eritrea " to facilitate a good interaction between the two peoples " . |
| 43 | Col. Salah al-Din Karrar , the Sudanese Revolutionary Command Council member responsible for transport and communications , told the rally that Sudan would " firmly and steadfastly " support the principle of Eritrean self-determination in all regional and international forums … |
| 44 | In 1764 the vicar of Ecclesfield told the Archbishop of York that the local Methodists would ‘ not be of any long continuance ’ and the vicar of High Hoyland wrote : |
| 45 | And told the cat Hastings , to whom she talked , because cats liked to be talked to , it comforted them , and because it comforted her , too , helped her marshal her thoughts . |
| 46 | Brian Puddicombe , from the Banking Insurance and Finance Union 's NatWest Committee , told the union 's annual conference in Llandudno , Gwynedd : ‘ It is totally unacceptable that people should be sacked as a direct result of being sick . ’ |
| 47 | But in the last week of October Karen told the Union leader in Washington that she had nearly all the proof necessary . |
| 48 | And so you never told the union ? |
| 49 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs Donald Dewar and George Galloway that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 50 | At Friday 's meeting , Mr Stewart told the union representatives and the Labour MPs , Donald Dewar and George Galloway , that while he would be working strenuously to help ease the plight of the Albion workers , he could offer little hope of any Government money to support the stricken plant . |
| 51 | On another occasion he publicly told the wife of Britain 's ambassador to France that she was ‘ not fit to be an ambassador 's wife ’ . |
| 52 | They are is the qualities which Robert Reid , Chief Executive of Shell UK was looking for in new recruits , as he told the North of England Education Conference in the Isle of Man in 1989 . |
| 53 | Ross MacKay , director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , told the North Wales 2000 Prospects and Opportunities conference in Llangollen that it was much too early for the Government to consider scrapping regional aid to Clwyd and Gwynedd in favour of the South East of England . |
| 54 | Go on , she told the voice with deadpan strength , futile , fat , fifty , is that your worst ? |
| 55 | When she was questioned she told the officer she had consumed two glasses of wine at the school Christmas concert . ’ |
| 56 | He told the officer he would assault him to make sure he was arrested and taken to the cells . |
| 57 | Model told the officer they were on a caravanning holiday in the nearby New Forest . |
| 58 | Mrs Fermor-Hesketh told The Spectator : ‘ Quite possibly Lord Hesketh tones down his behaviour when in the company of those cleverer than himself . ’ |
| 59 | The SS-1 supercomputer is nearly finished , but some parts still must be completed , the company told the Milwaukee Sentinel : ‘ In a very short period of time , we could be walking that machine out the door to a customer , ’ a spokesman told the Sentinel — ‘ It 's just a shame that IBM does n't have the vision they ought to have . ’ |
| 60 | He used to be stopped frequently after work and normally he just told the constable he was a policeman straight away . |