Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] told [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 2 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 3 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 4 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 5 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |