Example sentences of "tell [pers pn] that [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 2 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 4 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 5 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 6 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 7 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 8 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 9 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 10 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 11 | Managers whose consciences tell them that service users ought to have a voice often choose just one articulate , recovered , temporary recipient of the service as a token single voice of the mental health planning committee , where this lone individual often feels at a serious disadvantage , confused by professional jargon and out of his or her depth in the complex and confusing world of statutory agency planning . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 13 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 14 | Fourthly , fourthly I can tell him that prescription charges will raise nearly three hundred million pounds in the forthcoming year . |
| 15 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 16 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 17 | Hip-hop tells us that city life is impoverished , that real violence , as opposed to the symbolic stare-downs , is horrific . |
| 18 | SURPRISINGLY , DANNY says he does n't remember arguing about music in the office at all , save Neil Spencer telling him that Earth Wind & Fire sounded like ‘ a toothpaste advert ’ . |
| 19 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 20 | I 'm sure you do n't need me to tell you that vinyl wallcovering shows every defect in the plasterwork , so it was important to butt the different vinyls perfectly to avoid the joints showing through the border . |
| 21 | Tate & Lyle 's then head of research , A.J. ‘ Chuck ’ Vlitos , recalls one of the scientists , Riaz Khan , coming to his office in 1970 to tell him that compound number 7702 was ‘ very sweet ’ . |