Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [pers pn] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like a fool , I told her that the only reason I 'd married her was because she 'd told me she was pregnant . |
| 2 | I told them that the grand piano was two feet too short and DeFries said , ‘ Cancel the gig — no gig . ’ |
| 3 | Would you be surprised if I told you that the seven major shareholders in GEC , Westinghouse , Con Edison , NBC , and CBS , are Mr El , Mr Elolhim , and Mr Adonai , YHWH Inc. , Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh , Shaddai Holdings , and Zebaot International ? ’ |
| 4 | I had arranged to meet them at Salima 's house , but when I got there she told me that the other two were at Ruksana 's place . |
| 5 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |
| 6 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 7 | She told us that the best thing for him would be to have some traction sessions three times a week at Wrexham Hospital . |
| 8 | But now you tell me that the only reason you went to bed with me was because you thought you could up the stakes to marriage . ’ |
| 9 | Can you tell me if the removed pond water , in which I have rinsed my filter media , is good for my house and garden plants ? |
| 10 | Can you tell me if the tissue-typing results are back yet ? ’ |
| 11 | Hello John , erm could you tell me when the Social Services are being asked to make cuts and charge handicapped people and the elderly two fifty a day to attend day centres , and other departments are being asked to make cuts . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation . |
| 13 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
| 14 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 15 | He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children . |
| 16 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 17 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 18 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 19 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 20 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 21 | in London B T H or G E C , I remember he told us that the last time you know because he was n't called up in the war he was reserved . |
| 22 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |
| 23 | First , it tells us that the basic currency of the industry is not bits and bytes and the complex trappings of electronic technology . |
| 24 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 25 | In particular , can he tell us whether the continental gauge will finish at Stratford rather than King 's Cross , and will there be a freight depot at Temple Mills in Stratford ? |
| 26 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 27 | He tells us that the Foreign Secretary occupied a first-floor room overlooking the park , as did his private secretary and the Précis Writer . |
| 28 | Second he tells us that the classical paradises , which you can read about it in ancient authors , none of them are as fine as the Garden of Eden . |