Example sentences of "tell the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Fallon told the 60-strong audience : ‘ That 's nonsense , I gave the figures to Hilary Armstrong . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Modrow told the Central Committee that the future government not only needed new faces . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Andropov set out his general approach to such matters in a speech in the spring of 1983 in which he emphasised that the Soviet Union was ‘ only at the beginning ’ of the long historical stage of developed socialism ; there must be no exaggeration of the country 's closeness to communism , and no attempt to minimise the difficulties that lay ahead Discussing the party programme more directly , Andropov told the Central Committee in June 1983 that many of its directives had in fact been realised : links between citizens and deputies , for instance , had become closer , and national discussion of major items of legislation had become a well-established practice . |
| 5 | The political pressures reinforcing this attitude were powerful , and Shinwell , with his eye on the working class cost of living , told the Central Authority at its first meeting that they should not charge prices higher than costs ( without , however , specifying how this was to be interpreted ) . |
| 6 | The woman thief arrived with an accomplice at the house at Camlough and told the elderly woman she was thirsty . |
| 7 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 8 | Mr Lang also told the grand committee that figures due out this week , covering the year to December 1992 , would show marked improvements in the length of time National Health Service patients spent waiting for treatment ; a record number of patients and that the Government was on course to meet the guarantee that virtually no-one would have to wait more than 18 months for treatment . |
| 9 | Then , as she and Silvia packed up their things after their final English lesson , she told the other girl , ‘ I 'll be leaving tomorrow , just as soon as your exam is over . ’ |
| 10 | Laura told the other girl , ignoring her bark of sardonic laughter . |
| 11 | ‘ This is my office , ’ she told the other girl , adding wryly , ‘ A directorship just means that you get a share of the profits — and your name on the letterhead , of course ! ’ |
| 12 | Mr Onanuga told the other shop assistant a full 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending were published that he personally served the Chancellor . |
| 13 | ‘ Eat up , ’ I told the nearest bird . |
| 14 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 15 | Furthermore , in late August Yeltsin told the Japanese Kyodo news agency that he had achieved a " personal reconciliation " with Gorbachev . |
| 16 | Although technically the reform had taken effect on Nov. 1 , Yeltsin told the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet that it was simply impossible to proceed with the Shatalin plan without co-ordinating it with the central government . |
| 17 | True to the policy of backing the Constantinople regime , Nesselrode told the Russian ambassador in Paris that St Petersburg could not allow " the Pasha of Egypt … to place … the existence of the Ottoman Empire in peril " . |
| 18 | In a letter addressed ‘ Dear Boris ’ and signed ‘ Yours John ’ Mr Major told the Russian president that he supported his emphasis on ‘ controlling inflation , completing land reform and helping … businesses ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ Tallis said quickly , but she could n't help dropping her gaze as she told the partial lie , and when she looked back Wynne-Jones was not smiling . |
| 21 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 22 | President Alberto Fujimori told the Peruvian Congress the next day that the accord would help combat the alliance of drug traffickers with " terrorist subversion " . |
| 23 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 24 | The Bulgarian President , Zhelyu Zhelev , told the Czechoslovakian news agency CTK on Feb. 1 that it was " generally known that the Warsaw Pact ( had ) outlived its time " , and that Bulgaria was also planning to leave the organization . |
| 25 | Chantler , their economic adviser , told the new Minister frankly that the Conservatives had over-estimated the reality of controls , and most of his colleagues shared his view that any new system of control could scarcely be worse than the one they were attempting to use . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Tradition tells that Peden told the new bride to — . |
| 28 | Mr Alastair Burt , MP for Bury North , told the first meeting of the committee examining the bill , that no one knew if it would be a disincentive or not . |
| 29 | Cecil told the first League Assembly. : |
| 30 | : Jenkins muttered ‘ I ca n't play and rugby , I am still banned ’ , but told the Western Mail he was ‘ not moving from Pontypridd and that is final ’ . |