Example sentences of "tell [noun pl] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR Tom Cowie , chairman of motor retailer and financier T Cowie , told shareholders at the company 's annual meeting that trading in its first quarter was ‘ comfortably ahead ’ of last year . |
| 2 | MDU leader Dzorig told supporters at a rally that eliminating the MPRP 's monopoly of power from the Constitution was not enough and demanded that the Hural , of which 93.4 per cent of the deputies were MPRP members , be dissolved to make way for a democratically elected legislature . |
| 3 | The upsurge in overhead costs is a continuing challenge to farm management farm manager Donald Routledge told visitors at a research and development open day . |
| 4 | BNFL 's investment in West cumbria — including spending on plant at Sellafield — amounted to around one and a half millions pounds a day , every day , for the last 10 years , Sir Christopher Harding told guests at a dinner of the Cumbria Society . |
| 5 | On June 6 he told delegates at a seminar on promoting private investment that multipartyism would be established " in the near future " , warning at the same time that current conditions , notably the illiteracy rate of over 70 per cent , were " not adequate to meet the challenge of multipartyism " . |
| 6 | He told delegates at a conference in Kensington town hall about his luxury London hotel : ‘ My goodness , what a breakfast ? |
| 7 | ‘ The world recovery is not going according to script ’ Geoffrey Dicks , a senior research fellow at the London Business School , told delegates at the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) Business outlook conference in London last month . |
| 8 | Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall told delegates at the summit that the six members of the Warsaw Pact had agreed to dissolve the alliance by the beginning of 1992 . |
| 9 | A BOOZY L-driver in a motorway crash told police at the scene : ‘ I really AM Nigel Mansell . ’ |
| 10 | Dr Mardell told reporters at a press conference in Zagreb that the torment and carnage he had seen in a week in Srebrenica and the nearby town of Konjevic Polje surpassed his previous experiences in Ethiopia , Liberia and Afghanistan . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm not worried , ’ the five-year-old girl from Eccles , Greater Manchester , told reporters at a news conference at the Children 's Hospital of Pittsburgh . |
| 12 | The Chancellor — clearly just clinging to his job — told Ministers at a Cabinet meeting yesterday that they must slash millions off their budgets . |
| 13 | Last night , he told colleagues at a meeting of the economic and domestic policy sub-committee that he remained locked in a game of brinkmanship with the electricity generating firms who are reluctant to sign firm contracts on coal purchases until after seeing the white paper . |
| 14 | Apple chairman John Sculley told analysts at a briefing last month that the servers will be only the first step in a new push to support corporate users . |
| 15 | The only thing to remember about telling jokes at the breakfast/lunch/tea/dinner/supper table is not to make anyone sitting opposite you laugh when they 've got a half-chewed mouthful of tomatoey mush or curried gunge . |
| 16 | The following day Mandela was reported as having softened the ANC 's line , telling diplomats at a meeting in Cape Town that the deadline might be shifted if the government showed a commitment to addressing the issue of township killings . |