Example sentences of "she told the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go on , she told the voice with deadpan strength , futile , fat , fifty , is that your worst ? |
| 2 | ‘ Your roughs look really good , Charles , ’ she told the graphic designer . |
| 3 | She told the Association of District Councils ' housing conference in Southampton she would announce a review of the regulations to see how such parties could be controlled . |
| 4 | She told the jury : ‘ I said to him , ‘ You are a married man , ’ but he tried to get on top of me . |
| 5 | ‘ The messages on our banners in 1979 — freedom , opportunity , family , enterprise , ownership — are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig , Warsaw , Budapest and even Moscow , ’ she told the enraptured Tory faithful at the close of the Blackpool conference . |
| 6 | She ‘ could do business with Mr Gorbachev ’ , she told the world . |
| 7 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 8 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 9 | ‘ The media have decided that there has been a return to two-party politics and everyone else has been marginalized , ’ she told the author . |
| 10 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 11 | She was pleased that most people she told the story to that day proved to be a more appreciative audience than Marie had been . |
| 12 | Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding , riding by , or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm , or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 14 | The Protestants could hope but by no means be certain of what she would do , though they could take comfort from her dramatic gesture on Christmas Day 1558 , when she ordered the bishop celebrating Mass in her chapel not to elevate the host , walking out when he refused , and her even more spectacular gesture on 25 January 1559 when , at the opening of parliament , she told the abbot and monks of Westminster , processing with tapers burning , ‘ Away with these torches ! |
| 15 | Mrs Chalker echoed Mr Brady 's comments when she told the bank 's board yesterday : ‘ It is not clear to me that new facilities are needed to enable the bank to address this problem [ of defence conversion ] . |
| 16 | ‘ There is so much anguish being caused by the plan to build another potentially dangerous reactor , ’ she told the Inspector . |
| 17 | She told the former : |
| 18 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 19 | While she drank her lemonade and ate her biscuits she told the old lady about Brownies and how she had left her bike on the edge of the wood . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's given us one month to find another meeting place , ’ she told the Pack ; ‘ then we must go . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ During the holiday we saw Nicholas more than once , ’ she told the Daily Mail . |
| 22 | she told the court adding , ‘ As I turned away , I felt a kick and I saw Nicholas being restrained by his friends , his legs flailing towards me . ’ |
| 23 | Sergt. Peter Woodhouse of the Liverpool Police … she told the police that she did not think her husband was carrying out a strictly honest business . |
| 24 | She told the court that to save Ryan she had to kill Ben . |
| 25 | She told the Herald that she would miss Le Court and probably be homesick for a little while but she wanted to spend more time with her husband and family . |
| 26 | ‘ Fuck off , ’ she told the bad-luck men . |
| 27 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 28 | ‘ I am bringing an action for $1,000,000 against a health spa , ’ she told the court . |
| 29 | They 'd almost reached the place where the party was , but she told the driver to keep going . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't worry , be strong , we 'll do what we can , ’ she told the frightened child , ‘ and the hand of the Lord will look after you . ’ |