Example sentences of "told him [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
2 | Sentencing Harris , Lord Sutherland , told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent . |
3 | They told him that all had gone well until , between Roxburgh town and the castle , before which they were demonstrating , seeking to decoy Balliol , by chance an English party had come up behind them , presumably having ridden over the Border and by Kelso ford , and they had been trapped . |
4 | His brain told him that all would be ready in time , yet anxiety remained . |
5 | Jeff , who invented ICI 's first heart drug , checked with rocket scientist mates who told him that one huge rocket was out of the question . |
6 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
7 | When I told him that one of the most important was esparto grass , his grave face lit up , because Faber 's , it appeared , purchased consignments of it to meet their paper needs . |
8 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
11 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
12 | This is what farmer Ray Bouston found when MEB workmen told him that twenty-two of his charolais beef cattle were dead . |
13 | His long memory also told him that this was a moment of his life when he felt a total rapport with Fisher . |
14 | We told him that this was a band for full-timers not part-timers . |
15 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
16 | Gina 's friends told him that this was a ‘ personal canvas ’ and that it had more integrity than conventional beautified portraiture . |
17 | His common sense told him that this was a girl for him , but that sophisticated vision of Julie Murchison kept blurring the scene . |
18 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
19 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
20 | Later Marenches said that he had told the Shah to beware of the mullahs and the merchants in the bazaar , but above all to beware of Jimmy Carter , " I told him that this national and international disaster , President Carter , had decided to replace him . " |
21 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
22 | 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 " . |
23 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |