Example sentences of "told us [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Finance Houses Association , representing the biggest finance houses , told us that many of their members would say that a personal interview in an applicant 's own home , allowing the personal judgment of an experienced assessor , and an element of ‘ gut-feeling ’ would be the ideal . |
| 3 | He told us that one silent dinner-time , and left my mother and me alone immediately afterwards . |
| 4 | His pride in being able to cook three hot meals a day for two of us , on just one litre of meths in six days , was shattered when one pensioner told us that two weeks was more her time scale for such a luxurious amount of fuel . |
| 5 | A few weeks ago , he told us that that would ruin employment opportunities for women . |
| 6 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 7 | The matron also told us that this patient had to go into a nursing home ‘ towards the end ’ because ‘ she needed morphine injections which the doctor would n't give otherwise she would n't have had to move to somewhere strange . |
| 8 | The numbers using trading checks in our sample were too small to draw any conclusions from , but the National Consumer Credit Federation ( representing mainly small to medium-sized check traders , but some large firms too ) told us that some 80 to 95 per cent of their business is with previous customers , usually long-standing . |
| 9 | The Institute of Trading Standards Administration , which told us that some of its members are finding follow-on credit a problem in some places , suggested to us that , by regulation , follow-on agreements should count as one single agreement . |
| 10 | UAPT and , particularly , CD were in favour of this , and lenders would not object ; indeed , the Finance Houses Association told us that some of their members already include this information on proposal forms . |
| 11 | DESPITE the family rows and marriage break-ups , and the noticeable gaps in the ranks of her party guests , the 92-year-old Queen Mum 's tranquil smile and familiar wave told us that some things are unchanging . |
| 12 | Nobody told us that these pesticides were being used , they just sprayed away , put the fruit and veg on sale — and we bought it in all innocence . ’ |
| 13 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Professionals told us that these matches can only enhance the appeal of the game . |
| 15 | This told us that any simplistic assumptions about featuring ‘ female ’ domestic interests in science would probably meet with failure . |