Example sentences of "told [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Time is a luxury that Bell Resources may well not have , ’ he told shareholders at the annual meeting in Perth . |
| 2 | SIR Tom Cowie , chairman of motor retailer and financier T Cowie , told shareholders at the company 's annual meeting that trading in its first quarter was ‘ comfortably ahead ’ of last year . |
| 3 | She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid this tunic is a little on the tight side , ’ she told Marianne at the first fitting of her costume , after tugging ineffectually at the zip on the shimmery silver material . |
| 5 | In 1983–4 , 33 per cent of young workers told interviewers from the GHS that they were unemployed or had experienced unemployment during the previous twelve months . |
| 6 | Small red posters , beside the many wreaths , told part of the story : ‘ Remember PanAm 103 — demand airline security ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I told Warton about the descent , then the ditching ahead of us , which seemed to be a perfectly controlled set-down ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ In those days , the new psychology was just beginning to make itself felt in the circles I most frequented in Oxford , ’ he told readers of the 1950 reprint of Dymer . |
| 9 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 10 | Perhaps Ted told Jean of the walks the four of us took when Eva got tired of working ; and the time Eva 's feet hurt and she hailed a cab — absolute Roman decadence for Dad , Ted and me . |
| 11 | In 1976 he told listeners to the West Indies Test at the start of a new over , ‘ The bowler 's Holding , the batsman 's Willey . ’ |
| 12 | In 1963 ‘ there were some very unpleasant moments ’ , he told journalists at the Soviet Culture Foundation . |
| 13 | ‘ It is time to stop before it is too late , ’ Eduard Shevardnadze told journalists in the Abkhazian village where the plane fell , killing its pilot . |
| 14 | ‘ I told Wickham on the telephone , ’ he said . |
| 15 | She told Maggie about the palace of the Princess Tang Li , north of Beijing , which she had visited with her own beautiful mother , Maggie 's great-grandmother . |
| 16 | ‘ Now everybody , look down at your feet , underneath there is an awful lot of oil — so do n't stamp too hard , ’ he told visitors to the Studland Peninsula in Dorset during a ‘ live ’ Roadshow interview with Wytch Farm public affairs manager Jon Pack . |
| 17 | Since the day of Rosie 's wedding reception , Huw had been a regular visitor at the Watermen , though Connor never told Ruth about the attempted assault on the young man by the Brotherhood 's Punishment Squad . |
| 18 | Scott told Burn about the proposed delegation and assumed , probably correctly , that Donaldson intended to enlist Burn 's support for it . |
| 19 | ‘ Then he wo n't have told you what he told Heather about the evening you dined there . ’ |
| 20 | He told Georgiades about the killing . |
| 21 | He told Bowe at the final press conference : ‘ You may well get lucky and catch Holyfield with a good shot . |
| 22 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 23 | The profession should stop being so defensive , he told participants at the Scottish Institute 's annual conference in St Andrews last month . |
| 24 | So I told Helen about the hunger-strike . |
| 25 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 26 | You were asked whether you told Mr about the solicitors letter |
| 27 | When Tom Wilmot at Harvard told dealers around the time of Big Bang : " You should all understand thoroughly what 's going on . |
| 28 | Ariel began to communicate with the strangers in English ; she told Kit about the hot springs up the mountain , hoping he would let her go there . |
| 29 | The accounts are third-hand , told years after the events . |
| 30 | On May 24 the head of the US delegation at the CFE negotiations in Vienna told allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) that US-Soviet talks in Washington had failed to resolve key issues pertaining to the CFE treaty . |