Example sentences of "he told [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told viewers he longed get back with Maggie , 36 , and repair their broken marriage . |
| 2 | ‘ There was excruciating pain in my bottom , ’ he told Worthing County Court in 1986 , when his parents tried to sue Mr Blackshaw . |
| 3 | He told Fleury that his father had once again sunk very low … almost to death 's door . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going about , ’ he told Miguelito but the little man had danced his way forward . |
| 5 | As he told Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone , Archbishop of Toulouse : ‘ At least I have launched this big ship — others will have to bring it into port . ‘ |
| 6 | This , he told Meese in his interview on November 23rd 1986 , was something above all he hoped could be kept secret ; this , Poindexter had told him , ‘ had better never come out . ’ |
| 7 | He told vets : ‘ How much can certification tell us ? |
| 8 | ITN would be unable to overcome the loss of Sir Alastair Burnet , he told TV Times — ‘ Without him it looks like a scratch team . ’ |
| 9 | He told TV 's Panorama : ‘ They may try to nail it on to the perch again but nobody will believe it 's still alive . ’ |
| 10 | Ex-presidential candidate Ross Perot told The Wall Street Journal he did n't mean he would take John Akers ' job when he told TV host Larry King that ‘ If there 's something I could do for IBM , well , I owe them that forever . ’ |
| 11 | When I was small , Uncle Fred was my hero and I listened in awe as he told Dad of some of his experiences as a Marine . |
| 12 | He told Dad he would see I was all right . |
| 13 | ‘ By the time I got my boots on it would all be over , ’ he told Margery . |
| 14 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ The young man has a real gift ’ , he told Zborowski patronizingly . |
| 16 | ‘ I looked in at Sutherland 's Northampton crucifixions , ’ he told Edie Lamont in 1947 . |
| 17 | ‘ As for painting — I do n't know where I 'm going though steadily downhill , I expect , ’ he told Edie . |
| 18 | ‘ Granny is still alive ( at least I have n't heard ) , ’ he told Edie Lamont in July 1948 , ‘ so no inheritance . |
| 19 | ‘ Then he wo n't have told you what he told Heather about the evening you dined there . ’ |
| 20 | That same week he told Maggie out of the blue that he wanted to see her alone . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've brought a lamb for Miss Everdene , ’ he told Bathsheba 's aunt . |
| 22 | He told delegates : ‘ After all the Tories have taken , the end result is a country which can not pay its way , which lives on tick and with the highest interest rates of the advanced world . |
| 23 | Bill Jordan , president of the engineers ' union AEU , was hissed when he told delegates a Labour government should be ready to play a positive role in a Nato that was now ‘ reaping a spectacular harvest of peace ’ from years of multilateralism . |
| 24 | He told delegates the party 's programme for improving and protecting the environment was founded on four principles — ‘ a presumption against pollution ; the principle that the polluter pays ; precaution as the basis for all policy ; and freedom of environmental information ’ . |
| 25 | Steve Gazzard , who appeared in his ambulanceman 's uniform , won a standing ovation after he told delegates : ‘ Mrs Thatcher and her ministers are extremely quick to exploit photo-opportunities when disasters occur . |
| 26 | He told delegates : ‘ I have found it difficult to understand some of the regulations myself . |
| 27 | He told delegates that monosodium glutamate , though maligned , occurs in blood and human milk and has important reactions in the body . |
| 28 | He told delegates that while it has been established that the process helps to control disease , spoilage and infestation , it has its limitations . |
| 29 | Roger Lawson , Institute vice-president , summed up the mood when he told delegates that ‘ the days when accountants in industry and business were criticised , at times justifiably , as beancounters , are over ’ . |
| 30 | He told delegates at a conference in Kensington town hall about his luxury London hotel : ‘ My goodness , what a breakfast ? |