Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] [noun] tells me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Potter whose grandmother employed the second and third kitchenmaids in question was , M. André Simon tells me , Major Matthew Connolly ( father of Mr Cyril Connolly ) ; and with his felicitous evocation of a mid-Victorian country breakfast table and those second and third kitchenmaids pounding away at the ham and tongue for potting he makes a number of points , most relevant of which concerns the kitchenmaids . |
| 2 | ‘ Then we 're Hollywood bound , ’ her agent Kerry Gardner tells me . |
| 3 | ‘ Bob accepted The Changeling because he wanted to get his teeth into some really good British heavyweight drama , ’ his agent Liz Souissi tells me . |
| 4 | Then there is Thames itself , where chairman Roy Watts tells me privatisation has worked wonders with staff morale . |
| 5 | AUTHOR Jeffrey Archer tells me that he is still signing his name ‘ Jeffrey Archer ’ in his books , rejecting the easy option available since his peerage of signing just ‘ Archer ’ . |
| 6 | Announcing a third year of increased profits , managing director Anthony Mackintosh tells me : ‘ We plan to have a new front entrance , so in the evening it 's not quite so like Twickenham . ’ |
| 7 | Sometimes I wonder if I sleep too much , but my friend Cully Chatterton tells me that the need for sleep varies considerably from person to person and one must follow one 's inclination . ’ |
| 8 | THE conductor Alan Tongue tells me this heart-warming little story with a touch of the Scarlet Pimpernels about it . |
| 9 | Meanwhile band manager Charles Cosh tells me how they 're going to crack America . |
| 10 | Tour manager Terry Coyle tells me that Texas was the main downer , playing three nights in front of audiences which would look embarrassing even at the Camden Underworld . |
| 11 | Club Secretary Roger Ambrose tells me : ‘ We were very pleased to welcome him back . |
| 12 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |
| 13 | Pan Books ' spokesman Martin Neild tells me : ‘ I would n't like to comment officially , because it 's so terribly difficult to tell — you 've got to take into account overseas sales , borrowings from foreign libraries and so on . ’ |
| 14 | At the Criterion in Piccadilly Circus , US restaurateur Bob Payton tells me : ‘ We have camera crews from ABC , CBS and NBC coming . |
| 15 | ‘ He will have the same pay and arrangements as previous presenters , ’ Radio 5 spokeswoman Judy Leighton tells me . |
| 16 | ‘ It is a wonderful , very black , very witty book , ’ Orion publisher Caroline Michel tells me . |
| 17 | Skipper Kim Barnett tells me : ‘ There was a time when the opposition used to like me out of the way quickly because I had a reputation for getting after the bowling . |
| 18 | TELEVISION presenter Jayne Irving tells me she has become a forces ' pin-up in Bosnia . |