Example sentences of "he tell an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | He told an anti-Common Market fringe meeting in Blackpool he said he was resigning ‘ on a matter of principle . ’ |
| 3 | He told an international AIDS conference in Edinburgh that almost half of newly-infected adults were women . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | But he told an Australian newspaper there was ‘ nothing more beautiful ’ than the centre court , adding : ‘ There are unbelievable positives with these strange traditions . ’ |