Example sentences of "[vb past] us that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished us the best of luck and advised us that the Brigade was here to stay . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Stage said : ‘ Staff there told us that the equipment and particularly the surgical instruments and incubators would save lives . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The photograph was lent by a member of Frensham and Dockenfield Local History Society , who told us that the picture was taken around 1916 . |
| 12 | He told us that the end of February is the peak period for avocet numbers , ‘ record count so far this year is 170 birds . ’ |
| 13 | She told us that the priest would not be back until the afternoon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |