Example sentences of "[pers pn] tell [pron] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that story . |
| 2 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 3 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 4 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 5 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 7 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 8 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 9 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 10 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 11 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 12 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 13 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 14 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 15 | ‘ I tell them that acting is the burning of life — and the inner conflict lasts for a month … ’ |
| 16 | I tell myself that silence is more likely to be a personal choice than an imposed one . ’ |
| 17 | The , I tell you that place that they had in Street used to ins insert the sponges . |
| 18 | Did I tell you that Mark 's . |
| 19 | Did I tell you that story ? |
| 20 | You told him that thing . |
| 21 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 22 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 23 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 24 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 25 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 26 | You tell me that Bill is at home and either he is drunk or he is sober . |
| 27 | His face was infuriatingly bland as he answered , ‘ Did n't you tell me that night when I gave you a lift home that your life fairly buzzed with — shall we say — events ? ’ |
| 28 | Do you tell them that smoking is banned on the Underground ? |
| 29 | They tell me that Tamsin is out on a boat at an all-night party with two or three hundred other people and a stack of booze . |
| 30 | we 're still involved , and they tell me that life on a fire station is still very pleasant so I 'm sure it must be . |