Example sentences of "[pron] tell the foreign [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , like I told the foreign gentleman , there was dancing in the sitting room , and this Mrs Heatherington-Scott she was dancing with Mr Merrivale . ’ |
| 2 | Bob blushed at his unaccustomed prominence , but said promptly : ‘ Four , like I told the foreign gentleman . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And did you tell the foreign gentleman that her husband was going mad with jealousy ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |
| 5 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |
| 6 | With suppressed excitement and relief at the possibility of preoccupation , he told the Foreign Secretary that the crisis of the monarchy was upon them , that he ( Eden ) must go and read his own overseas correspondence on the subject ( which he had not apparently hitherto done ) , and that he must not trouble him ( Baldwin ) too much with foreign affairs just now . |