Example sentences of "[noun sg] told [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 2 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 3 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 4 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 5 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 6 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 8 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 9 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 10 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |