Example sentences of "[noun] he tell me [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 2 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 3 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
| 4 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 5 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 6 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 7 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 8 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 9 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |