Example sentences of "tell [pron] that [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that her other maid went mad in the spring . |
| 2 | ( It was at this time , I think , that she told me that her own mother , means-tested in the late twenties , had won the sympathy of the relieving officer , who ignored the presence of the saleable piano because she kept a clean house , with a cloth on the table . ) |
| 3 | She broke down when she told me that her little boy ( now six years old ) had asked every year to be taken to see Father Christmas in a nearby store , and every year she had had to disappoint him . |
| 4 | He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible , and adumbrated the problem to me . |
| 5 | He told me that his younger brother , Georges , had died aged just twelve , in Neuengamme having received fifty different injections of bacilli in medical experiments . |
| 6 | ‘ But father told me that my first priority was to get the farm paid for . |
| 7 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |
| 8 | This was bad news for the poet , who until his late twenties had never ‘ touched the lips of woman ’ , but he did his best to play it her way , listening dutifully when she told him that their spiritual relationship would be damaged ‘ if I came to you in sin . |
| 9 | They told him that his only remedy was to work as a government agent . |
| 10 | When congratulating Paskevich on the end of the war with the Turks in 1829 , Nicholas told him that his next task was to be " the permanent pacification of the mountain peoples or the extermination of the recalcitrant " . |
| 11 | I told her that her precious sister-in-law had made a mess of my life yet again , so I suppose she felt obliged to make amends . ’ |
| 12 | also told us that their new slogan is ‘ One call does it all ’ . |
| 13 | I suppose one would call him a hypochondriac , because Dorothy had once told me that her earliest memory was of her father standing in front of the looking-glass saying , ‘ I am a dying man ’ ; her mother 's face had that bearing-up look one sees on the faces of those suffering with their feet . |
| 14 | Knitters often tell me that their biggest problem is time . |
| 15 | I went er for a hearing test er last week and they tell me that my left ear 's a bit full up . |
| 16 | But because you 're an old-fashioned , besotted old woman I 'll laugh at you while I tell you that your dear Andrew has not missed my wifely attentions at all . |
| 17 | I would have to seek Neil out and tell him that his old acquaintance was now , if not necessarily dangerous , at the least some kind of villain , who needed careful watching . |
| 18 | Then , as he drank the rest of his coffee , he said , ‘ Mr Woodall tells me that their veterinary nurse is going to leave . ’ |
| 19 | It seemed , however , that she was not , for she suddenly switched the conversation by saying , ‘ Your husband tells me that your temporary housekeeper is leaving soon and your maternity nurse is being replaced by a young nanny . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ By the way , why did n't you tell me that our mysterious door led to the laboratory at the back of Doctor Jekyll 's house ? |
| 21 | You may tell me that your personal life is not my concern and that it is not for me to comment — and you would be justified however , I can not help but make it my concern because I have your future very much at heart . |
| 22 | All I have to do is tell her that our cold stores are full of life-saving health foods , without which I would be keeling over and clutching my left ventricle . |
| 23 | The third and final volume is devoted to quantum theory and there he tells us that its first chapter will tackle the basic element of the mysterious behaviour in its most strange form . |
| 24 | John Richardson tells us that its violent tone actually protected Rothenstein . |
| 25 | This manifest contradiction unc tells us that our one assumption is not tenable . |
| 26 | Mr. Thorpe is the 47th patient to receive this form of new treatment and he tells us that his medical condition has dramatically improved . |
| 27 | ‘ I spoke to her the other day at a charity meeting and she was telling me that her poor brother died recently . |
| 28 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 29 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |
| 30 | My dearest love , I chatter about all sorts of odd news , when I really only want to tell you that my real self is in your keeping . |