Example sentences of "have tell [pers pn] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend has told him that the council might be prepared to take the children into voluntary care for a while so that Ahmed can convalesce properly . |
| 2 | He has told us that the minister relied on the legal advice from within the Department when he issued his directive to the area health authority and put in the commissioners . |
| 3 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 4 | Rational judgement might have told him that the nation 's plight was hopeless , but his was the vision of an avenging prophet . |
| 5 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 6 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 7 | But I 'm afraid you 'll have to tell her that the days when Rome ruled the world are over . |
| 8 | We would have actually liked to have told her that the man was the Secretary of State for Wales and a member of the Cabinet ! |
| 9 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 10 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 11 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 12 | He said council officers had told them that the repair bill per flat would cost in the region of £5,000 , whereas it would cost about £40,000 to build new homes . |
| 13 | They answered just as Jesus had told them and the men let them go . |
| 14 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 15 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 16 | The lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , who was here alone . |
| 17 | The King 's officials had told me that the Princess was very popular , and the people hoped that she would become my wife . |
| 18 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 19 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 20 | Maureen had told her that the O'Neills ' neighbour had been in the wool shop and had told her that she was sure they were all mad . |
| 21 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 22 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 23 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 24 | Inspector Blakelock , she remembered , had told her that the Laboratory refrigerator had once held a whole head . |
| 25 | It would seem from what you 've told me that the market share is on the low side of a monopolization case and that kind of case to begin with is always a complicated and long drawn out case . |
| 26 | As Gooseneck strode masterfully back to his accustomed position , Amiss heard Mauleverer muttering mutinously : ‘ That 's all very well , that 's all very well , but nobody 's told me if the haddock 's finnan . ’ |
| 27 | We have told them that the suppression of opposing views is not the way forward , and have called for further progress towards democracy and greater public accountability . |
| 28 | I do n't remember the prior , it 's what my parents have told me and the birth certificate shows , of course . |
| 29 | Engineers have told us that the blast furnaces are at risk . |
| 30 | ‘ All right , well I have told you that the facts are for you ; you have seen all the witnesses in the case , you have heard them and it is for you to assess their evidence and to decide which of them you believe , if any , which of them you disbelieve , if any . |