Example sentences of "he tell the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He told the Prime Minister : ‘ We have handed over to you a united country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 5 | He told the packed church : ‘ The gunman went out to kill a British soldier and he missed . |
| 6 | Electronics industry consultant Bob Heikes reckons he 's likely to hang on to the job , but for all the wrong reasons : ‘ Bull is hopeless , ’ he told the International Herald Tribune — ‘ a new guy is n't going to make any difference . ’ |
| 7 | In November 1958 he told the Western powers that they must leave Berlin within six months and make it a ‘ free city ’ , or he would sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany . |
| 8 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Records will show very shortly that we have not had a typical winter for this part of the country and that seems to be the main reason , ’ he told the environmental health committee yesterday . |
| 10 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 11 | In April he told the fifth session of the central commission that ‘ the consent of the Bishops will not be difficult to obtain and their approval will be unanimous ’ ( Rouquette , 1968 , p. 114 ) . |
| 12 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 13 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's just a healthy young lad , I do n't know what he gets up to in his sex life , ’ he told the leering press . |
| 15 | He told the Labour conference : ‘ It is no wonder that we are running a £20bn sterling trade deficit . |
| 16 | He told the Labour Conference in Blackpool that the Cabinet should set an example by having faith in the public seft sector . |
| 17 | He told the gathered community that he was committed to proving it was not active in South Ronaldsay . |
| 18 | Higher education could not rely on the taxpayer as its only source of funds , he told the annual meeting of the university 's court of governors . |
| 19 | We can move it together , ’ he told the annual meeting of his flagship Bond Corporation . |
| 20 | He told the Annual Chemical Congress in Manchester yesterday : ‘ Cigarette smoke , moisture from exhalation , aromas and smells from food and goodness knows what else are the cause . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Go back , ’ he told the two grooms . |
| 22 | Lucien feared that if he told the other vibrancers he was working with Jeopardy , it would excite resentment among them . |
| 23 | In case Laing was unfamiliar with it , he told the young man what he now knew to be true . |
| 24 | ‘ I have some very good news for you , my dear fellow , ’ he told the young man . |
| 25 | He told the young man to wait in the hall . |
| 26 | ‘ Do not leave this hall thinking that with the fall of the Berlin Wall the work of Amnesty has lightened ’ , he told the young delegates . |
| 27 | " The gospel does not become involved in the affairs of this world " , he told the protesting peasants of Swabia in 1525 . |
| 28 | Again , in March 1942 , he told the Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress that ‘ old age is going to be frightfully expensive ; there are going to be a fearful lot of old people ’ . |
| 29 | He had come , he told the Daily Mirror reporter , to be there ‘ in case the Fascists cause trouble ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ The men are not deviating by one hair 's breadth from the ordinary system of training , ’ he told the Daily News . |