Example sentences of "[verb] us that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly reminded us that the decade is likely to be characterised by low growth and tight competition , and that retailers need to be positioned with a low cost base , flexible work-force and strong retail formats to meet the challenges of the next few years . |
| 2 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 3 | A spokesman for Southern Electric , which owns the cables at Haydon Wick , told us that the evidence is still far from conclusive and that no study to date has demonstrated that there are any adverse effects . |
| 4 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 5 | While we were drinking our tea , the lady at the shop told us that the water that flows over Hardraw Force is in York within an hour . |
| 6 | Mr Stage said : ‘ Staff there told us that the equipment and particularly the surgical instruments and incubators would save lives . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 9 | passing the questioning to the Mountie bridged the void neatly , and the Mountie told us that the reason that Steve , Angelica 's business manager , also her lover , had not turned up at Toronto station was because he too was dead , struck down in his apartment by blows to the head with a mallet . |
| 10 | The men told us that the area was dangerous , that robbers used to hide in the mango tree at the crossroads and jump down on people returning home to their villages . |
| 11 | Our research also told us that the Student 's Book had to be in colour , so we took out the pictures and began again — using two pictures instead of one wherever possible — so that we stay up to date with the latest modifications to the Interview , Paper 5 . |
| 12 | The photograph was lent by a member of Frensham and Dockenfield Local History Society , who told us that the picture was taken around 1916 . |
| 13 | He told us that the end of February is the peak period for avocet numbers , ‘ record count so far this year is 170 birds . ’ |
| 14 | She told us that the priest would not be back until the afternoon . |
| 15 | He assured us that the preservation of a proper pension scheme would be a consideration taken into account by the Secretary of State in determining to whom the subsidiaries of the Scottish Transport Group were to be sold . |
| 16 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |
| 17 | Now , the very word ‘ about ’ clearly warns us that the inscription was probably added some time after the event , but all the available evidence does point toward its veracity . |
| 18 | The case of Etruria warns us that the assimilation of many techniques and notions does not necessarily imply a real understanding between two civilizations . |
| 19 | The huge postbag on the subject from SHE 's readers shows us that the subject needs far more serious investigation , and can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking . |
| 20 | The high occurrence of so-called ‘ baby blues ’ and feelings of isolation alone shows us that the birth of a child is a very stressful event — a dramatic physical , psychological and social transition . |
| 21 | It was from another officious Vadinamian Warden , informing us that the Recovery — which would release the Fraxillian package — would occur at exactly the mid-hour of the following bio-day . |
| 22 | We toasted our success , de Macon informing us that the market was a prosperous one . |
| 23 | Every Christmas we get a card from the Reverend , informing us that the weather is temperate . |
| 24 | He has told us that the minister relied on the legal advice from within the Department when he issued his directive to the area health authority and put in the commissioners . |
| 25 | Engineers have told us that the blast furnaces are at risk . |
| 26 | It reassures us that the hierarchy created within the company does not threaten individual liberty because it is the outcome of a voluntary consensual arrangement . |
| 27 | ‘ The unit assures us that the decision to have frozen meals delivered to disabled and elderly people , instead of having them prepared in the person 's house by a home help , is not a money saving measure , ’ she said . |
| 28 | The Minister assures us that the door is not closed but that we are edging forward . |
| 29 | Our man on the visitors ' end assures us that the chant was ‘ Big fat Ray 's black and white army ’ virtually throughout . |
| 30 | What happened was that a big boardroom job that was quietly occupying us and running nicely to schedule suddenly went critical when our friendly architect informed us that the Secretary of State was opening the building four weeks earlier than scheduled and it would be very nice to have the furniture there . |