Example sentences of "told the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fallon told the 60-strong audience : ‘ That 's nonsense , I gave the figures to Hilary Armstrong . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Modrow told the Central Committee that the future government not only needed new faces . |
| 3 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 4 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 5 | The political pressures reinforcing this attitude were powerful , and Shinwell , with his eye on the working class cost of living , told the Central Authority at its first meeting that they should not charge prices higher than costs ( without , however , specifying how this was to be interpreted ) . |
| 6 | The woman thief arrived with an accomplice at the house at Camlough and told the elderly woman she was thirsty . |
| 7 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 8 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 9 | Then , as she and Silvia packed up their things after their final English lesson , she told the other girl , ‘ I 'll be leaving tomorrow , just as soon as your exam is over . ’ |
| 10 | Laura told the other girl , ignoring her bark of sardonic laughter . |
| 11 | ‘ This is my office , ’ she told the other girl , adding wryly , ‘ A directorship just means that you get a share of the profits — and your name on the letterhead , of course ! ’ |
| 12 | Mr Onanuga told the other shop assistant a full 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending were published that he personally served the Chancellor . |
| 13 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 14 | Furthermore , in late August Yeltsin told the Japanese Kyodo news agency that he had achieved a " personal reconciliation " with Gorbachev . |
| 15 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 16 | True to the policy of backing the Constantinople regime , Nesselrode told the Russian ambassador in Paris that St Petersburg could not allow " the Pasha of Egypt … to place … the existence of the Ottoman Empire in peril " . |
| 17 | In a letter addressed ‘ Dear Boris ’ and signed ‘ Yours John ’ Mr Major told the Russian president that he supported his emphasis on ‘ controlling inflation , completing land reform and helping … businesses ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's just a healthy young lad , I do n't know what he gets up to in his sex life , ’ he told the leering press . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , ’ Tallis said quickly , but she could n't help dropping her gaze as she told the partial lie , and when she looked back Wynne-Jones was not smiling . |
| 20 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 21 | President Alberto Fujimori told the Peruvian Congress the next day that the accord would help combat the alliance of drug traffickers with " terrorist subversion " . |
| 22 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 23 | The Bulgarian President , Zhelyu Zhelev , told the Czechoslovakian news agency CTK on Feb. 1 that it was " generally known that the Warsaw Pact ( had ) outlived its time " , and that Bulgaria was also planning to leave the organization . |
| 24 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 25 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 26 | Tradition tells that Peden told the new bride to — . |
| 27 | : Jenkins muttered ‘ I ca n't play and rugby , I am still banned ’ , but told the Western Mail he was ‘ not moving from Pontypridd and that is final ’ . |
| 28 | His muted celebrations told the real story . |
| 29 | Agbenugba 's inspiration , as his book 's title makes clear , is the original Black British Novel — Samuel Selvon 's 1958 masterwork , The Lonely Londoners , the book that told the real story of Notting Hill in the Fifties ( and was heavily borrowed by Colin MacInnes for his rather more celebrated City Of Spades ) . |
| 30 | He said that if the Tories had policies that were not working for the Scottish economy then the silence of the SNP since last year 's general election told the real story of what independence for Scotland would really mean . |