Example sentences of "[verb] me that his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible , and adumbrated the problem to me .
2 He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over .
3 He told me that his younger brother , Georges , had died aged just twelve , in Neuengamme having received fifty different injections of bacilli in medical experiments .
4 There is a streamlined efficiency about his recordings which is beyond question , with everything well prepared and executed , but it has always struck me that his interpretative qualities have always lagged way behind his undisputed capabilities as an orchestral trainer .
5 This sounds like a wonderful opportunity for Letterman to bring to bear his feminine understanding on eager actresses , although something tells me that his Californian slightly-absurd-boyish-middle-aged charm will not go down well in Paris .
6 Erm , I 'm not sure if this is wind up or not , but John informs me that his middle name is Russell , and his dad wanted to call him Jack Russell
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