Example sentences of "tell him that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , although he felt better , his hands were shaking so much that I refused to let him shave with a safety razor and told him that a friend was bringing his own electric shaver to lend him . |
| 2 | He told him that a mitre could be a candle-snuffer . |
| 3 | His instincts told him that a child was more likely to keep something dark than an adult — a child has no tiresome misgivings about deceiving even his loved ones — but he was not sure that he dare trust his instincts . |
| 4 | Then on 22 July someone rang Roberts anonymously and told him that a lorry-load of aluminium sulphate had been tipped into the water supply . |
| 5 | Joe met a man he had sailed with , and he told him that a ship had already been sunk by a submarine . |
| 6 | The curator of that museum told him that a book was being written that would transform everyone 's perception of Modigliani , and this led Martens to Noel Alexandre . |
| 7 | Experience told him that a woman 's natural instinct was to defend herself rather than to hurt the attacker . |
| 8 | A gentle pressure in the small of his back told him that the thruster pack had fired . |
| 9 | It was when we had settled down to talk in comfortable armchairs that I told him that the man for whom I had substituted at Marlborough , in the hope of replacing him altogether , now planned to return , so that once more I should be out of a job . |
| 10 | Curtains obscured his view , but the shape of the covers told him that the bed was occupied . |
| 11 | I walked back from the Meeting with Quintin who knew by then that he was Macmillan 's selection , and I told him that the idea had my support . |
| 12 | He was shocked when she told him that the gardener came three times a week and did not offer to mend it . |
| 13 | Rosen said an Australian intelligence agent told him that the word is now out in South-East Asia that money can be made selling to investigators and journalists phoney samples of ‘ contaminated ’ articles . |
| 14 | Some time later , the officer touched his shoulder and told him that the court was ready . |
| 15 | I sat on the facilities , and told him that the water samples from the horse car had been pure and simple H&sub2 ; O. |
| 16 | Parker told him that the State Department had asked Mexico , but there had been no reply as yet . |
| 17 | The judge told him that the sentence would have been longer if his victim had been permanently scarred . |
| 18 | When Dulé looked back he smelled the burning of the Rebecca on the breeze ; his companions told him that the column of pitchy smoke rose in the dawn like an offering . |
| 19 | My Lord there is a final part of our submission on on this is because I do n't know whether your Lordship has a copy of the report this is the report of the fact that My Lord erm what I wish to refer you to if I may , is erm that paragraph three one of the report which is erm that solicitors and er he instructed himself er from the law society who told him that the law society in paragraph three page five , do n't issue any specific directional guidance duty of care in relation to the plaintiffs transaction , the Law Society view obligation to be have to be considered on the basis of and he then goes on from there to depart from that approach to speculate as to what his approach would be erm |
| 20 | Someone told him that the way to make money was to buy when the shares were low and sell when they were high . |
| 21 | She told him that the Bible indicated that thinking something was like doing it . |
| 22 | The girl told him that the house was full of Pakistanis , and added , with a lilt of incomprehensible pride , that she herself came from Guyana . |
| 23 | She told him that the Minotaur lived deep inside a labyrinth , an underground maze . |
| 24 | X , an officer at Kleinwort Benson , telephoned D and told him that the target company had accepted a new offer . |
| 25 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 26 | She merely told him that the book bore a crest , an embossed crest of a hawk . |
| 27 | A flash of precognition told him that the box would be able to swim faster than he could . |
| 28 | Joe had several long conversations with Maureen and she told him that the war had brought happiness to her and Chris . |
| 29 | He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision . |
| 30 | ‘ When I told him that the van was standard apart from a roll cage he found it even more difficult to accept . |