Example sentences of "[coord] tell [pers pn] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 2 | and told me that the problem was electric |
| 3 | Now John recalled that struggle and told her that the Italians had invaded Abyssinia and taken Addis Ababa with modern weapons , including poison gas , in spite of a declaration by the League of Nations . |
| 4 | The following Spring , a still shaken Khrushchev called a group of writers to his dacha outside Moscow and told them that the Hungarian rising could have been avoided if a few writers had been shot in time . |
| 5 | He later reiterated the warning and told them that the police would have to see that the prohibition order was enforced . |
| 6 | The card was written by the Reverend Donald McQueen and told them that the Laird of Raasay had sent his own boat for them ; the reverend gentleman himself arrived shortly afterwards ; ‘ an elderly man , ’ says Boswell , ‘ with his own black hair , courteous and rather slow of speech , but candid , sensible and well-informed . ’ |
| 7 | Anne and Heywood Hill , of the bookshop in Curzon Street , lived at number 10 Warwick Avenue and told them that the lease next door was for sale . |
| 8 | One who did listened intently to Harry 's story and told him that the Germans inspected all sections of the vessel before sailing . |
| 9 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 10 | It answered the question he had asked himself and told him that the bones of a very young child had been found as well as those of a young woman . |
| 11 | X , an officer at Kleinwort Benson , telephoned D and told him that the target company had accepted a new offer . |
| 12 | Stephanie spoke also , for her almost sharply , to Marcus and told him that the visit would happen and that she trusted him to help with it , to behave well . |
| 13 | Some time later , the officer touched his shoulder and told him that the court was ready . |
| 14 | The Liberals … and Conservatives returned to MacDonald late that evening and told him that the economies were quite inadequate , and unlikely to be accepted by Parliament or to restore confidence . |
| 15 | A Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister , Liu Huaqiu , summoned the US ambassador in Beijing , Stapleton Roy , on Sept. 3 and told him that the US decision " grossly interferes in China 's internal affairs , seriously jeopardizes Sino-US relations and obstructs and undermines the great cause of China 's peaceful reunification " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There remains the third course , to throw Clarke over altogether and tell him that the highest point of his career has been reached . |
| 18 | Go back to the tiger and tell him that the cow would n't come with you , but that your wife is bringing it . " |
| 19 | She wished she could believe that Mother Clare in Dublin would welcome Eve and tell her that the Dublin convent would be her new home for the next year . |
| 20 | Tony brings me a cup of coffee and tells me that the tracks we crossed a while back were , Odd-Knut says , jarv or wolverine . |
| 21 | She believes fashion to be a Western concept , and tells me that the only other clothes an Asian woman needs besides a sari is a ‘ top ’ and a ‘ nice skirt ’ . |
| 22 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |