Example sentences of "she told [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 18 January 1984 she told a gathering of parliamentary lobby journalists that she wished to be remembered for breaking the consensus and tackling traditionally ‘ immune targets ’ . |
| 2 | She told a magazine : ‘ If we 'd left it the way it was so depressing you 'd have wanted to slash your wrist after seeing it . |
| 3 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I just do n't like to see a woman pushed out like that , ’ she told a television reporter , almost tearfully . |
| 5 | Once she was hypnotised , she told a vivid tale implicating several people in the murders . |
| 6 | She told a Dublin newspaper : ‘ I wish to express my apologies to those I let down . ’ |
| 7 | As she told a close friend : ‘ I knew I had only one chance to get it right . |
| 8 | The best thing I can do is forget all about him , ’ she told a close friend . |
| 9 | She kept a secret diary which revealed that he spoke on average 3.5 words a day , she told a divorce judge . |
| 10 | ‘ It seems to me evident that a family will provide support for each other , ’ she told a conference of 300 experts . |
| 11 | ( She told a gathering of women in a Mayfair hairdressers that Andrew loved fooling around — with her feet — and insisted on painting her toenails at all times . |
| 12 | As she told a journalist on the newspaper Today — who was obviously rather disappointed — ‘ I never feed my candidates . |
| 13 | ‘ We have heard a lot of that in the last ten days , ’ she told a meeting at St John 's College , Cambridge , yesterday . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't call me ma'am , call me Duch , ’ she told a friend shortly after her marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's well cooked , ’ she told a friend before she and Prince Charles travelled to the private Lindo wing of St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington , west London . |
| 16 | She told Pascoe about the house and the woman she had seen there ; she told a little of her meeting with Luke ; the rest she kept for herself . |
| 17 | She told a reporter from the Chicago Tribune ‘ I 'm titular head only . |
| 18 | Sheila Stroud , who 's one of three co-defendants , wept in the dock , as she told a jury how her ex-lover was tied up , and pushed over a cliff in a burning car . |
| 19 | She told a news conference in Beverly Hills that the 13-year-old boy who alleges he had a sexual relationship with Jackson was devastated by what happened . |
| 20 | By Val Woan and Harry Dean A WORKMATE of hanged mum-to-be Paula Gilfoyle sobbed today as she told a murder trial jury about the ‘ best friend I could ever wish for . ’ |
| 21 | A WORKMATE of hanged mum-to-be Paula Gilfoyle sobbed today as she told a murder trial jury about the ‘ best friend I could ever wish for . ’ |
| 22 | She told a London press conference that a raft of decisions had been announced and a tight timetable set up for future reforms , designed to prevent the spiral of decline predicted in the report if action were not taken . |
| 23 | She told a conference organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh that such a conclusion would not win universal acclaim and would be seen by some as lowering the moral tone of the country . |
| 24 | These young people stumbled ‘ from one nightmare into another ’ , often falling prey to drugs , prostitution , disease and despair , she told a conference in London organised by Centrepoint , a charity that runs hostels for the homeless . |
| 25 | and she told a lot of other people and so I think we got a pretty comprehensive list actually . |
| 26 | But erm anyway , she told a lie to me this time . |
| 27 | Moreover , ‘ They were all madly highly-sexed like the Starkadders ’ , she told an interviewer earlier in the decade , ‘ and I think a lot of the laughing at that kind of thing in Cold Comfort Farm comes from a ‘ distaste ’ … if you have it thrust on you from an early age , with divorces left , right and centre and people chasing each other round tables … well . ’ |
| 28 | She told an audience at the Royal Society , ‘ Let me confirm unequivocally … the United Kingdom will meet the commitments which it has solemnly accepted to reduce acid emissions . ’ |
| 29 | She told an audience of deaf and hearing people : ‘ I am very happy to be here at the launch of the dictionary and I hope it will help people to greater interaction . ’ |
| 30 | As the woman who discovered and consequently managed the karate kicking teen-idol , she told an amazing story which twenty-eight-year-old Macchio has emphatically denied . |