Example sentences of "tell i that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , Daphne told me that the tall spikes of flowers , resembling yellow lupins , last better if stem-rotting bacteria can be kept at bay . |
| 6 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 7 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 8 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ A friend told me that the only adjective that describes the British is ‘ opaque ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | AN OLD gentleman once told me that the two things that caused the greatest rural rows were the Church and fox-hunting . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ They told me that the worst case scenario was that his brain would swell and he would have to have an operation . |
| 15 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Well , ter cut a long story short 'e ends up tellin' me that the last bloke was put off fer losin' too much time an' I might be a bad time-keeper as well , what wiv me injuries . |
| 19 | Someone has told me that a new carb would help , someone else reckons the distributor would be best changed . |
| 20 | One night during our charter , when we had been sipping whisky under the stars , Senator Crowninshield had told me that no fat man could ever again become President of the United States . |
| 21 | If he had told me that the first half was going to be crap , I would n't have bothered to watch it in the first place . |
| 22 | My staff tell me that the elderly people have sort of taken to it like a duck to water almost . |
| 23 | But now you tell me that the only reason you went to bed with me was because you thought you could up the stakes to marriage . ’ |
| 24 | People representing those shops tell me that the latest move by Tesco and the others that are breaking the law could sound the death knell for some of the vulnerable stores . |
| 25 | Silver Reed tell me that the fine gauge lace carriage has to be tuned to the needlebed . |
| 26 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 27 | Is he telling me that every young person in Devon who does not have a job has a YT place ? |
| 28 | Later Seddon telephoned to tell me that a young man — actually a volunteer from the Metropolitan police — had duly appeared at Southend , and had been remanded for a week . |
| 29 | I 'm sure that there are hundreds of dealers getting ready to write me letters at this point to tell me that a satisfied customer is more important than a sale . |
| 30 | ( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . ) |