Example sentences of "he told the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour should ‘ face the challenge ’ — the slogan of the policy review — by carrying out a full-scale programme to implement nuclear disarmament , he told the conference . |
| 2 | ‘ The charter is ill-conceived and bad for small firms , ’ he told the Confederation of British Industry 's small firms council . |
| 3 | ‘ If it can not be avoided , it will have to happen , ’ he told the Chartered Institute of Transport on 4 May . |
| 4 | He told the Labour conference : ‘ It is no wonder that we are running a £20bn sterling trade deficit . |
| 5 | ‘ The documents show that the companies will be able to go straight to the director general of water services for extra price increases , ’ he told the conference . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the desert from 4 July until just after I was captured and escaped in May 1942 , ’ he told the court . |
| 7 | As he told the story , he did not seem too worried . |
| 8 | He told the conference — which is considering future world political , economic , social , scientific and environmental trends — that with the relative decline in the economic importance of the United States and the diminishing military threat posed by the Soviet Union , the new civil super powers of the 1990s were likely to be Japan and Western Europe . |
| 9 | ‘ It is time for the party as a whole to take a step back and look at the way in which its democracy is being carried out , ’ he told the conference . |
| 10 | ‘ We do not doubt that the ( East German Communist Party ) is able through co-operation with all forces in society to find answers to all those questions which arise through the development of the republic and which interest its citizens , ’ he told the huge audience gathered in the Palace of the Republic . |
| 11 | Proposals intended to weaken socialism will not blossom here , ’ he told the audience . |
| 12 | ‘ The problems , ’ he told the assembled media , ‘ were all down to you . |
| 13 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 14 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 15 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 16 | He told the conference that he will today be publishing a consultative Green Paper to tackle what he called ‘ the weapon of the militant — the tool of the wrecker ’ . |
| 17 | And it wo n't , ’ he told the conference . |
| 18 | He told the jury yesterday that he had never threatened her with his truncheon , but he had offered to use it as a sexual aid . |
| 19 | He told The Independent : ‘ It 's an experiment … and very respectable . |
| 20 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 21 | Courts will weigh parents ' financial means in imposing fines and compensation , and they will be ordered to attend court hearings , he told the conference . |
| 22 | New products should be allowed to trade freely in any market overseen only by the agency responsible for that market , he told the Chicago Commodities Law Institute yesterday . |
| 23 | He told the appeal judges it would not be ‘ just an empty gesture ’ to vary the orders complained of and instead impose postponement orders . |
| 24 | He told the conference that his priority was to curb inflation , and that was why he had raised rates . |
| 25 | ‘ We can not neglect the possibility that current levels of interest rates may challenge the assumptions underlying some of this lending , ’ he told the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Paris . |
| 26 | But he told the bishop at a private interview that he was depressed about preaching , he felt the people to be so remote from the practice of religion . |
| 27 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 28 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 29 | ‘ There is quite a sameness in high street stores in Britain , ’ he told the Clothes Show Magazine , ‘ whereas what customers really want is more individuality . |
| 30 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |