Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] told me that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Jim Walker told me that , despite these good developments , he was worried that the new system for community care might be underresourced . |
| 2 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 3 | Peggy van Praagh told me that , even so early , de Valois had said to her ‘ I think he 'll make a choreographer ’ , but she was already trying out several other aspirants , so could not give him immediate chances . |
| 4 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 5 | ‘ The big gamble on Pendero was by Ibn Fayoud — Harry Short told me that . |
| 6 | We were going to say hullo to you , and then walk round to that little island — it 's called Seal Island — I ca n't say the Gaelic name but Mrs McDougall told me that 's what it means . |
| 7 | Alec Guinness told me that . |