Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [pers pn] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he favours an intimate setting , but , ’ and Simone laughed , ‘ I told him that engaged women only favour intimate settings when it 's with their fiancé . |
| 2 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 4 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 5 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 6 | ‘ Can you offer me no explanation of such clear symptoms , or are you ignoring these , are you telling me that such suffering is a figment of my imagination ? ’ |
| 7 | are you telling me that these people are renting this place out ? |
| 8 | When we tell you that baked beans on toast ( as long as the toast is made with wholemeal bread ) is one of the best high-fibre meals you can eat , it should give great reassurance to those who enjoy the more homely delights of the table . |
| 9 | ‘ As to that machine paying for itself , let me tell you that one side of one tube alone has thirty-nine thousand rivets to be inserted . |
| 10 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 11 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 12 | They told us that many customers would be ready to pay £30 more for a washing machine , say , to get it from someone who would have the payments collected weekly from their homes , simply because that fitted into the pattern of their normal use of credit . |
| 13 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 14 | And they tell you that two AS-levels are equal to an A-level when it comes to applying for university places . ’ |
| 15 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |
| 16 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 17 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 18 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |