Example sentences of "told [pers pn] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had told them that Whitlock would be promoted to Deputy Director when he retired at the end of the year . |
| 2 | The image of God as a cosmic gambler can also be found in Brunain , where a simple peasant and his wife find God to be good doublere , " doubler " , giving them a second beast when they naively give their own cow to the priest who has told them that God repays gifts twofold . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 4 | Beuno had told them that funerals were known as either private or public . |
| 5 | Horace Evans had told me that Anthony Eden would get better , and I had relied on him going on . |
| 6 | Robson , who will contact Kenny Dalglish today for an update on Barnes , said : ‘ Kenny has phoned me a couple of times and has told me that Barnes has done some training this week . |
| 7 | Stuart had told me that Aj ( whose name is short for Arnold Junior , after the Head Forester of whom he became the spitting image when he first came to work at Clumber as a woodsman ten years ago at the age of sixteen ) was a dab hand with a tractor . |
| 8 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 9 | I can see from what you 've just told me that things have changed rather a lot in fifty years . |
| 10 | I laughed for the sheer pleasure of playing such games with God 's strong world , then remembered the senator had told me that Robin-Anne liked to sail . |
| 11 | ‘ Tucker 's told me that Mr Kennedy does n't want you to make an offer . |
| 12 | I wondered why McIllvanney had not told me that Rickie and Robin-Anne Crowninshield were drug addicts , then I realised that McIllvanney would not have told me anything that might have risked my acceptance of the charter , but now that I had learned that the twins had such a severe drug problem I was even less keen to take on the job . |
| 13 | and er I said you 've al also told me that Sue said there 's no way she 's going out with him on the at forty I said that 's only two years away . |
| 14 | You hate him for coming because he 's told you that Gerry is n't just missing , but dead . |
| 15 | ‘ Have n't I told you that Doreen has n't been here ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Dorian , ’ he said quietly , ‘ do n't be frightened-my letter told you that Sybil Vane is dead . |
| 17 | The detective had told him that Alexander Atkins and his companion insisted that he meet them on Boxing Night as they would have definite instructions for him . |
| 18 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 19 | She had told him that Brenda was obsessively vegetarian , and that she longed for red meat : would he take her out ? |
| 20 | He had informed the FBI on Jan. 11 , 1990 that his source of information , Salvadorean Col. Armando Aviles , had told him that Col. Guillermo Alfredo Benavides was planning to murder the Jesuits . |
| 21 | Joseph 's father has told him that things are going to change , meaning , of course , that the new baby will have an impact on all of them . |
| 22 | His father would have expected him to be brave , would have told him that God was God of the darkness as He was of the light . |
| 23 | Common sense ought to have told him that Marie 's reaction would be just like this : quiet and resigned . |
| 24 | She had met John briefly on Friday night and he told her that someone had told him that men who fought with the International Brigade would not be accepted in the Forces . |
| 25 | The King had told him that Gaveston aimed high , coveted an earldom , and wished to use his friendship with the Prince to found a dynasty as great as the de Clares , the Beaumonts , or any of the great lords who had followed the Conqueror across the Narrow Seas . |
| 26 | Domenica had n't told him that Lorrimer was religious . |
| 27 | Then this morning she had told him that Janine was ‘ delicate ’ and needed her mother to look after her . |
| 28 | She would then , on the vague premise that they might meet , have had her words all sorted and ready , and would have told him that Rosemary , in the flat opposite … |
| 29 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 30 | A former fellow prisoner at Gloucester Jail , Brendan Ekworth , told the court that Gardiner had told him that White would have an accident . |