Example sentences of "tell an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new chairman , Dr Gregor Gysi , told an emergency party congress at the weekend that the SED had made a start in ‘ breaking with Stalinism , ’ but added that there was still a long way to go in ‘ overcoming Stalinist structures ’ . |
| 2 | The new chairman , Dr Gregor Gysi , told an emergency party congress at the weekend that the SED had made a start in ‘ breaking with Stalinism , ’ but added that there was still a long way to go in ‘ overcoming Stalinist structures ’ . |
| 3 | ENVIRONMENT chiefs told an Ulsterman to dig up his roadside garden — because his daffodils were a ‘ hazard ’ to drivers . |
| 4 | Club owner David McKay-Watson told an inquest yesterday : ‘ That weight is excessive . |
| 5 | Her mother Jane told an inquest yesterday : ‘ I do n't know how she reached the flex . ’ |
| 6 | Joanne told an inquest yesterday : ‘ I told him to stop calling until his exams had finished . ’ |
| 7 | Advanced police driver Constable Paul Phillips and Constable Zena Goode told an inquest Northampton General Hospital that 17 year old Mark Windram was travelling in a stolen car at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour through the town . |
| 8 | But her father John today told an inquest he is certain it was n't pressure of work . |
| 9 | For most of that time she was in labour and great pain , she told an inquest this afternoon . |
| 10 | THE driver of a runaway lorry which ploughed into a van and shop killing six people had no history of heart trouble , a doctor told an inquest yesterday . |
| 11 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 12 | Fire investigation officer Alan Haddock told an inquest yesterday that he believed the fire had been caused by a butane gas heater or a portable lamp igniting a mixture of petrol vapour and air . |
| 13 | Ethel Topp told an inquest in Middlesbrough , Cleveland , that the last she saw of her 72-year-old husband Edmund was when he went out to ‘ clear his head ’ on December 14 last year . |
| 14 | Gary 's father , Frank Hutchinson , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , told an inquest in Darlington yesterday that as soon as he heard the news on the radio he was certain his son had been hurt and immediately contacted police . |
| 15 | Jeffrey Edwards , consultant orthopaedist and paediatrician at the H M Stanley Hospital , St Asaph , told an inquest at Prestatyn that , in retrospect , warning signs over the baby 's heartbeat should have been heeded earlier . |
| 16 | Malcolm Edwards , British Coal 's commercial director , told an electricity conference in London that the corporation was prepared to enter supply deals lasting eight years — the same period set down for the bulk of initial contracts between privatised electricity generators and distribution companies . |
| 17 | A DIRECTOR of a leading Edinburgh stockbroker told an insider dealing trial yesterday how his firm had acted on allegedly confidential information about a Scottish company by selling 1.8 million of its shares . |
| 18 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Something as curious as the monarchy wo n't survive unless you take account of people 's attitudes , ’ the Prince told an interviewer in 1982 , in a remark which gives some clue to the task he set himself . |
| 20 | Herbert 's work involved travelling to various parts of Africa , Europe and the Middle East , and although theoretically based in Johannesburg , he told an interviewer that he had never spent more than six weeks continuously in his office there . |
| 21 | His mounting literary reputation was by then sustained by poems as well as criticism , though he had abandoned the writing of poems before the war : ‘ It struck me they were bad , ’ he told an interviewer years later , ‘ I did n't want to print them ’ ; so that though his Collected Poems ( 1955 ) were a minor intellectual sensation when they finally appeared , they belong to another time . |
| 22 | Howard himself told an interviewer in 1789 that his daily diet consisted of ‘ two penny rolls with butter or sweetmeats , one pint of milk , five or six cups of green tea and at bedtime a roasted apple ’ . |
| 23 | " The [ communist ] movement is starting to fade away , they are alienating themselves from the people , " Buscayno told an interviewer . |
| 24 | Companies are facing another tough year in 1992 , Keith Wey , economist , told an association conference in London yesterday . |
| 25 | The Labour leader told an audience of business people , academics and professionals that his aim was to return to the situation of the 1960s , when fewer than one million were unemployed at any time and then mainly for short periods . |
| 26 | She told an audience at the Royal Society , ‘ Let me confirm unequivocally … the United Kingdom will meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted to reduce acid emissions . ’ |
| 27 | She told an audience of deaf and hearing people : ‘ I am very happy to be here at the launch of the dictionary and I hope it will help people to greater interaction . ’ |
| 28 | Environment Minister David Maclean told an audience at Tory Central Office : ‘ The rain of the last few days goes some way to replenishing the reservoirs . |
| 29 | He told an audience at Stockholm 's stock exchange : ‘ The abandonment of the project enables all concerned to replan accordingly . |
| 30 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said he expects to ship the follow-on to Windows 3.1 , codenamed Chicago , in 1994 but declined to say at what point in the year the upgraded system will be launched : ‘ We should debunk any notion that Chicago is around the corner , ’ Gates told an audience of developers sponsored by Microsoft — ‘ All we can say is we expect it will be in 1994 and we 'll keep people in touch on that . ’ |