Example sentences of "tell [pron] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 2 | I told them that the grand piano was two feet too short and DeFries said , ‘ Cancel the gig — no gig . ’ |
| 3 | He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children . |
| 4 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 5 | The second prejudice against dissection was held by religious people who took in a literal sense the resurrection of the body , and had an emotional commitment to this doctrine , even if intellect told them that an incomplete body could be no bar to the miracle of rising from the grave with the sounding of the last trump . |
| 6 | Inspector Blakelock , he 's the Assistant Police Liaison Officer , told me that every human being has a unique fingerprint and no two types of blood are exactly the same . |
| 7 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 8 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 9 | As I stumbled along , she told me that the present appearance of the castle was in part the creation of the hotel people , who had joined two separate buildings together . |
| 10 | However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay . |
| 11 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 12 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 13 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 15 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 16 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 17 | When we neared the outskirts of Donegal Town , the driver told me that the former maid suspected young Mulverin of pillaging the Big House for building material . |
| 18 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation . |
| 20 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 21 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 22 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 23 | Morrison was host to such Victorian worthies as Ruskin , the great art critic , and Charles Kingsley , who is said to have been inspired to write his book The Water Babies by his visits to the Dales ( Vendale being based on Littondale ) and who once told somebody that the black marks on the face of Malham Cove were made by " the fingers of little chimney boys " . |
| 24 | If someone told you that a major ensemble of some twenty bronzes has recently been permanently installed in a public park hard by Wall St and that its subject is an allegory of greed , would you believe it ? |
| 25 | She told herself that the best thing she could do would be to go out of the house and climb up to where the buzzards and the ravens nested on the clifftop , but she did n't pay herself much attention . |
| 26 | His success led to some intimacy with the Indians , who told him that a vast sea lay off to the west — a sea , and a land , infinitely rich in gold . |
| 27 | Once , when stationed at Pulham in Norfolk , his commanding officer told him that a naval airship was drifting from the North Sea entirely out of control , as both its engines had broken down . |
| 28 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 29 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 30 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |