Example sentences of "he tell [pers pn] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her that the bracelet had the woman 's music in it , and sometimes , if you waited for rain and then listened very carefully , you could just hear it , very faintly , like someone playing in the distance . |
| 2 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 3 | He told her that the cross was not religious , but marked the place where a criminal was put to death and buried . |
| 4 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 5 | When he told them that the Government could have used more oil at the power stations this summer and so built up coal stocks for the winter against a possible strike , but had n't , they merely retorted , ‘ More fool you ’ and thanked him for letting them know how strong their position was . |
| 6 | He told them that the educational psychologist was very good and really knew the children . |
| 7 | When the Shah and Empress received Marenches , he told them that the ayatollah had sent kidnappers to seize Hassans family and bargain them for the Shah . |
| 8 | However , he submitted that even if the trial judge had misdirected the jury when he told them that the case against the first appellant depended solely upon what it was proved that he himself had done , that misdirection was to the advantage of the first appellant . |
| 9 | He told me that the sacred water was bottled and sold to Irishmen all over the world for its healing powers . |
| 10 | He told me that the way I felt was quite normal for someone in my situation ’ |
| 11 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
| 12 | He told me that the match on Sunday was the first time he had been properly man marked since playing in Italy . |
| 13 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 14 | He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some , and that I was probably just blacking out . |
| 15 | For instance , we were talking about the cinema , and he told me that the average Hollywood film reaches a larger public than the Holy Scriptures . |
| 16 | In it he told me that the blood he had spilt over my traitor 's proposal — his own blood — was nothing to the blood of the traitors that he would shed if the Aten fell , and it was his lot to take vengeance . ’ |
| 17 | He told me that the central finger always goes first , followed by the ring finger and then , if you 're lucky , the index . |
| 18 | He told me that the telephonist at the police station had received a telephone call from a man saying that an escaped prisoner , a Lawrence er was to be found at er the home of a David and that the er Lawrence was in possession of a hand gun . |
| 19 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 20 | He told us that the paintings on either wall faced each other , and he liked to think they carried on a consultation to themselves . |
| 21 | He told us that the end of February is the peak period for avocet numbers , ‘ record count so far this year is 170 birds . ’ |
| 22 | in London B T H or G E C , I remember he told us that the last time you know because he was n't called up in the war he was reserved . |
| 23 | When my right hon. Friend sees the new Irish Prime Minister soon will he tell him that the biggest contribution the Irish Republic can make to peace , stability and reconciliation in Northern Ireland is to renounce its claim to sovereignty over Northern Ireland , as that claim encourages Irish Republican terrorism and gives it legitimacy , as well as being the strongest stumbling block in the way of all-party talks aimed at constitutional progress ? |
| 24 | He tells me that the National Front 's ‘ a load of rubbish ’ , that politicians are ‘ a waste of time ’ and that when he sees his nan , … ‘ she 's always on about me getting a job . |
| 25 | Later he tells me that the apocalypse will also mean the end of macho . |
| 26 | A : hello Mr Parkin this is Guy Cook here B : yes A : er do you remember um sending us a er an estimate for electrical repairs * for a hundred and fifty pounds * well I 've er just had a word with the Electricity Board with an engineer called Mr Golding and he tells me that the er the list of jobs you gave us unless there 's any special circumstances should not be more than around one hundred pounds B : oh * A : well he said he 'd have to look at it of course but er is there some special reason why you thought it would cost more A : well would you be prepared to do it for the price he quoted B : no A : well why not B : I ca n't afford it not with my wages and overheads £ I have A : well £ why should I pay an extra fifty pounds if I can get it done cheaper * B : well if you can do that * do |
| 27 | He tells me that the power-cut in south-east London that night began at 7.37 pm , and ended at 9.54 pm . |
| 28 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 29 | He tells us that the Foreign Secretary occupied a first-floor room overlooking the park , as did his private secretary and the Précis Writer . |
| 30 | He tells us that the Treasury waggon — a caisson — took the lead , followed by a carriage occupied by the Duke of Bassano . |