Example sentences of "he tell [pron] [that] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed .
2 Although mainly a director of low budget productions , he told me that before the war he concerned it a poor year if he did not earn six thousand pounds , quite a sum for those days .
3 He told me that in every war there had to be some casualties .
4 He told me that in the past insulin had been used to put people in coma states but he would n't dream of doing anything as crude or violent ; a silky drip of valium sedation was all that was required .
5 He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash .
6 He told us that during the January ‘ freeze-up ’ there had been a great influx of shelduck .
7 I happen to know , from a friend of mine , that Robert Trivers , long before he was the great evolutionary biologist he is today , when he was an illustrator of children 's books , argued the whole thing to and fro with a friend of mine who was a Freudian analyist and he tells me that in the beginning all they talked about was Freud .
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