Example sentences of "he tell [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're making things seriously easy for us , ’ he told a raging Perdita as he cantered back . |
| 2 | I suppose he told a good tale and the boys let him in . |
| 3 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 4 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 5 | He told a packed meeting that he was opposed to discrimination against lesbians and gay men , and , further , that he wanted to see homosexuality regarded as being equally as valid as heterosexuality . |
| 6 | He told a joint meeting of the authority with Clwyd Family Health Services Association ( FHSA ) in Mold , that the authority will be bidding for its share within the next two weeks . |
| 7 | The German Democratic Republic ‘ is our strategic ally and a member of the Warsaw Pact , ’ he told a Central Committee meeting on Saturday . |
| 8 | He told a key meeting in Dunkirk at the end of August : ‘ You must find the nerve to ask for a better treaty ; one that hands less power to Brussels , controls bureaucracy more stringently and leaves France her autonomy in foreign and monetary policy . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was done man ’ , he told a young associate on It , ‘ We 've done all that . ’ |
| 10 | Eliot was more hopeful about the ‘ re-establishment of a native culture ’ in Virginia than in New England , he told a Virginian audience , since ‘ You are farther away from New York ; you have been less industrialised and less invaded by foreign races ; and you have a more opulent soil . ’ |
| 11 | Moreover , Lorca influenced Leonard 's world-view too ; his ‘ transcendental and far-reaching ’ ideas about life touched him : ‘ Lorca changed my way of being and thinking radically , ’ he told a Spanish journalist . |
| 12 | He told a regional meeting of the federation : ‘ Unlike large companies , small businesses can not raise capital , they can only borrow but because of their size , they do not have the negotiating clout of a large business when it comes to dealing with a bank manager . ’ |
| 13 | Fortified by a few bottles of champagne , he told a disbelieving audience that his main love in life was ‘ screwing ’ . |
| 14 | He told a parliamentary committee in 1840 that once the money was received and the Chinese buyer got his opium from the ships offshore , then it was the buyer 's business what became of the opium . |
| 15 | It was his first double-century in any form of cricket , and he told a congratulatory gathering of Pressmen later that he was playing only because of the magical treatment on his injured knee administered by 76-year-old Dr Mohammad Aslam . |
| 16 | When he played for Sheffield United he told a local newspaper that he dared not go into city nightspots in case he ran into any Wednesday supporters . |
| 17 | Prosecutor Joanna Korner said : ‘ He told a senior officer he ruined his life for 10 minutes of joy . ’ |
| 18 | He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch . |
| 19 | ‘ Many would be tempted to emigrate , ’ he told a public meeting . |
| 20 | Just two days after his separation from the Princess of Wales was announced , he told an elderly well-wisher he was feeling ‘ not too bad ’ . |
| 21 | He told an anti-Common Market fringe meeting in Blackpool he said he was resigning ‘ on a matter of principle . ’ |
| 22 | He told an international AIDS conference in Edinburgh that almost half of newly-infected adults were women . |
| 23 | Almost a year ago he told an environmental conference in Glasgow that land equal to half the area of Glasgow would be needed to dispose of the region 's sludge . |
| 24 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ When you are innocent , even the fine of one penny would have been a penny too much , ’ he told an excited press corps who were already working over-time on the scoop . |
| 26 | But he told an Australian newspaper there was ‘ nothing more beautiful ’ than the centre court , adding : ‘ There are unbelievable positives with these strange traditions . ’ |
| 27 | Close by , at SPY HILL , pentices were remembered by the late Mr Armer , who was a neighbour , and he told the present owner of his recollections . |
| 28 | He told the Prime Minister : ‘ We have handed over to you a united country . |
| 29 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
| 30 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |