Example sentences of "[noun] told [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 2 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 3 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 4 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 6 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 7 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 8 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 9 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 10 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 11 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 12 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 13 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 14 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 15 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 16 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 17 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 18 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 19 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 20 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 21 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 22 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 23 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 24 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 25 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |