Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] tell [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jessie Barnes told the court that the defendant had told her cousin ; ’ You can' ; t run your mouth of at me ’ . |
| 2 | When the worst of her hunger had been appeased , Topaz began to tell her story . |
| 3 | Judith Leggett had told her partner Patrick Cartan , 32 , yet again , that she did n't like his awful checked shirts . |
| 4 | She murmured that Nicola Sharpe had told her editor that she had been given a really good story by someone in the Drugs Squad . |
| 5 | Yesterday , the court heard that Mrs Gilfoyle had told her husband that a woman friend of his would only move into their home ‘ over my dead body . ’ |
| 6 | That 's what Reg had told his mother , God rest her soul , and he 'd been right . |
| 7 | Nils had told her Madreidetic had n't yet stolen the secret of imminence-awareness from the Company but that was no reassurance . |
| 8 | As Chief Inspector Martin had told her mother : |
| 9 | Mr Robson had told his wife he had been scratched by a woman during a pub fight . |
| 10 | As the recession deepened into slump , the people tried to tell their government they were hurting . |
| 11 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 12 | Her nightmares had deeply affected Richard , and so Beth had told her husband , ‘ Either they stay close by where I can hear them should they need me … or I 'll arrange for the children , and myself , to move to the east end of the house . ’ |
| 13 | As he took up his school books again and moved them into his bedroom , he wondered if his father had told his mother about his leaving school . |
| 14 | Once the uniforms had told their version in the canteen , he would be a laughing stock . |
| 15 | ‘ The doctor had told him contact sport was out , but he was determined to hang in there . |
| 16 | Presently the servant came to tell me lunch was ready . |
| 17 | His dad had told his grandad 's story with a sort of ironic pride . |
| 18 | The year before Hughes had told his audience that |
| 19 | When Tamar began to tell her father and George about the children , however , her mother-in-law brightened up and looked quite animated . |