Example sentences of "tell that [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elderly people are being given food and water to persuade them not to vote for SWAPO and people are being shown videos of the Ethiopian famine and told that that is what is in store for them , according to Andimba Toivo ja Toivo , SWAPO 's Secretary General . |
| 2 | I was at one point some years ago told that more money 's invested in pigeon racing than in horse racing . |
| 3 | Thornton and Higgs were told that each boat caught about 2000 dolphins each year , travelling up to 180 km ( 1 12 miles ) offshore to find their quarry . |
| 4 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 5 | During a 17-month-long crackdown on burglary across London detectives have been told that many thieves use the drivers for shifting hi-fis , televisions and videos . |
| 6 | Two district councils , Angus and Cumnock & Doon Valley , have already been pressing for changes and the committee was told that many other authorities were experiencing disadvantages because of the rule . |
| 7 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 8 | Stirling had not been told that such a unit was operating in the target area , despite the fact that its presence might stir up the enemy . |
| 9 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 10 | They had not realized that Dr Dunstaple had the support of the Royal College of Physicians … and felt distinctly aggrieved that they had not been told that such an august body disagreed with their own man . |
| 11 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 12 | He was told that such a reference might cause embarrassment to some of the pupils . |
| 13 | The police then sought the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and were told that such evidence would not be admissible in Irish courts , and that the Attorney General would be seeking an injunction to prevent termination . |
| 14 | The Galiaras were told that all the trouble was caused by the fact that she had no entry certificate , but that does not explain the inhuman treatment she received . |
| 15 | His father 's body that had lain in the great lead-lined stone coffin there for forty years was reverently removed and buried below the flagstones inside the chapel , which was hung with black , and the old man was told that all was ready for him . |
| 16 | You are told that all these ritual practices have now come to an end , for the coming of Jesus makes all ceremonial redundant . |
| 17 | Burton asked for an audition and did one despite being told that all the parts were taken . |
| 18 | When the Cleveland affair was in the news in 1987/88 I wrote about becoming a father , which was the most wonderful experience — I felt completely liberated by it ; and then I was being told that all men were potential child abusers because they were so emotionally retarded . |
| 19 | I am repeatedly told that all the fuss is being caused by a vociferous minority of licensees . |
| 20 | In addition , the existing nurses , who were given undertakings when the trust was set up that their posts would be protected , are now being told that all their jobs are up for re-examination and that anyone seeking extra education will soon be told that someone else is waiting to take her position — |
| 21 | The Commission was told that all 13 hours of recordings of communications between the operations room of the SAP internal stability unit and police officers on the day of the massacre had been erased accidentally . |
| 22 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 23 | She spoke Spanish a little , enough to understand what was going on , although at her interview she had been told that all her patients would be British . |
| 24 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 25 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 26 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 27 | The companies are believed to be looking at ways to have it support Windows applications as well , but the paper was told that that problem has not yet been solved . |
| 28 | The court has been told that that order has not been formally served upon the mother , but there is no question but that she knows of its existence and its terms . |
| 29 | You 're told that that particular function is equal to that . |
| 30 | There is , to my mind , no doubt that Mr Bloch and his locksmith would not have been permitted by Mr Clayton to interfere with the existing lock if Mr Clayton had been told that that act was intended in any way to interfere with his rights under his existing sub-lease . |