Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were addressed by a M. Corneloup who told them that some 103 priests had ‘ escaped from the land of slavery … and had entered the … |
| 2 | So he come then and he told me that that best friend of mine was killed . |
| 3 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 4 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 5 | I told him that this bizarre gift had frightened me , made me feel vulnerable ; and that I had felt compelled to develop a magical system of my own to prevent my hyperactive visual memory from destroying me altogether . |
| 6 | Belle 's angels told her that this terrifying woman suffered excruciating headaches and that she must n't give up . |
| 7 | This told us that any simplistic assumptions about featuring ‘ female ’ domestic interests in science would probably meet with failure . |
| 8 | Willis had frequently told her that these old barges , in spite of their great sails , did n't need a crew of more than two men , in fact a man and a boy could handle them easily . |
| 9 | The organisers of the St John 's centenary programme tell me that those early services were probably held in some form of temporary accommodation . |
| 10 | Erm be because out of that debate this morning I sense you have much to offer the rest of us and I hope that that conversation will not be a conversation confined your Synod or to the to the assembly of URC but that we 'll find ways of sharing that perception of ministry with those of us in other churches cos you do n't need me to tell me , tell you that that key question in the whole ecumenical debate , not just in these nations but worldwide and I think that from within this reform tradition in which I share I will hope that we will find ways of offering that perception of ministry , in all its forms as erm , a symbol and a sign of the ministry of the whole people of God we have that to offer the churches in Wales and worldwide and I hope that we can find ways of doing that . |
| 11 | I tell him that some Indian shops have been burned , according to my taxi driver . |
| 12 | The general rules of quantum mechanics tell us that this latter state is an even-handed superposition of the states in which unc is " up " and unc is " down " . |
| 13 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You will surely tell me that this universal proposition is true ‘ Every man is a biped ’ … |
| 15 | A very rudimentary knowledge of detective fiction tells you that any photographic blackmailer worth his salt keeps producing copies of the incriminating material until he 's blue in the face . |
| 16 | I can tell you that that this area is not far from the area that was hit last month , also in helicopter raids , by forces . |
| 17 | However , I must tell you that another prospective tenant has appeared on the scene . |
| 18 | It tells us that all lesser relationships must also be subordinated to the priority of this new relationship . |
| 19 | What then tells us that this new case is not another such ? |
| 20 | ‘ You telling me that all those scientists spent their time in America and could n't wait to get home ? ’ |
| 21 | This young man has come from Dublin to answer all our questions , and I had a letter from Mick Collins himself telling me that this young man would assist us in every way possible … " |
| 22 | If we find that , on the basis of informal interview , the writer is telling us that all working-class men love their employers dearly , or that working-class girls at grammar schools have no divided loyalties , do we accept these claims or dismiss them ? |
| 23 | The Sister tried to tell her that all new mothers went through something of this sort for a short time after childbirth ; but Harriet knew , when she fetched Liza and her baby back to Four Winds at the end of the week , that what her daughter was suffering from was not the ordinary ‘ blues ’ which she herself had experienced after Liza was born . |