Example sentences of "[art] [noun] told [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 3 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 7 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |