Example sentences of "[conj] told [pron] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 2 | and told me that the problem was electric |
| 3 | Now John recalled that struggle and told her that the Italians had invaded Abyssinia and taken Addis Ababa with modern weapons , including poison gas , in spite of a declaration by the League of Nations . |
| 4 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 5 | He later reiterated the warning and told them that the police would have to see that the prohibition order was enforced . |
| 6 | The card was written by the Reverend Donald McQueen and told them that the Laird of Raasay had sent his own boat for them ; the reverend gentleman himself arrived shortly afterwards ; ‘ an elderly man , ’ says Boswell , ‘ with his own black hair , courteous and rather slow of speech , but candid , sensible and well-informed . ’ |
| 7 | Anne and Heywood Hill , of the bookshop in Curzon Street , lived at number 10 Warwick Avenue and told them that the lease next door was for sale . |
| 8 | One who did listened intently to Harry 's story and told him that the Germans inspected all sections of the vessel before sailing . |
| 9 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 10 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 11 | X , an officer at Kleinwort Benson , telephoned D and told him that the target company had accepted a new offer . |
| 12 | Stephanie spoke also , for her almost sharply , to Marcus and told him that the visit would happen and that she trusted him to help with it , to behave well . |
| 13 | Some time later , the officer touched his shoulder and told him that the court was ready . |
| 14 | The Liberals … and Conservatives returned to MacDonald late that evening and told him that the economies were quite inadequate , and unlikely to be accepted by Parliament or to restore confidence . |
| 15 | A Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister , Liu Huaqiu , summoned the US ambassador in Beijing , Stapleton Roy , on Sept. 3 and told him that the US decision " grossly interferes in China 's internal affairs , seriously jeopardizes Sino-US relations and obstructs and undermines the great cause of China 's peaceful reunification " . |
| 16 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 17 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |