Example sentences of "tell i that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel told me that Rosie is doing well , and might come home on Wednesday . ’ |
| 2 | By the same token , Edwin told me that Gifford stopped using it after his stroke . ’ |
| 3 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 5 | A faint tinkle of metal told me that Shep was lurking there in his kennel and I slowed my steps ; I was n't going to be caught again . |
| 6 | My hands are never clammy , and something told me that Aunt Louise knew very well who had touched her . |
| 7 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 8 | Ben told me that Carl had baited him . |
| 9 | East African Asians told me that West Indians sometimes behave as though they are superior to Asians , because Asians are religious or because Asians ca n't speak English well . |
| 10 | Right , the search is on for the person in the team who told me that Larry Adler 's birthday was today , and not February the tenth . |
| 11 | I went to the house and got no answer then the woman next door told me that Brendan came in a posh motor car . |
| 12 | He told me that Pyke 's private life was n't a desert of austere and puritanical practices . |
| 13 | ‘ My daddy told me that tramps and people who have n't any money sometimes smoke cabbage-leaves and things like that instead of proper tobacco . |
| 14 | A woman arranging flowers around an anaemic statue told me that Father Burne was , ‘ even now , in the sacristy ’ . |
| 15 | But then she told me that Arthur was in love once before , and that it ended unhappily . |
| 16 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
| 17 | She told me that eagles from there carry a great burden and for some it is hard . ’ |
| 18 | When you told me that Stapleton had owned a school in the north of England , I checked on him and where he had come from . |
| 19 | However , even my limited medical training told me that Alec Reid was good at his profession ; his medical supplies might be limited , but he knew his South Seas . |
| 20 | He told me that Lambeth Palace was pursuing its own contacts in an attempt to locate Terry Waite . |
| 21 | ‘ I came to find you because you were the only person who told me that Liam would n't be in that house . |
| 22 | He told me that you and Sophie had been there ; he also told me that Marianne had disappeared . |
| 23 | Then Liza told me that Mrs Mitchell had died in childbirth and that Nelly herself had been taken to Wolverhampton to live with an aunt and uncle . |
| 24 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 25 | When you told me that Mrs Lyons was getting a divorce , I realized that she hoped to marry Stapleton . |
| 26 | Earlier in the year Mansell told me that Indycar racing fascinated him — and he would relish its new challenge . |
| 27 | Stromson said : ‘ Paul also told me that Dr Bean-Bayog shared her erotic fantasies with him and asked him to act them out with her — and that they did . ’ |
| 28 | Chatterton climbed down to the deck and told me that Robin-Anne had eaten a huge breakfast . |
| 29 | She told me that Tony spent a lot of time making passes at her , but she was horrible flirtatious and very beautiful . |
| 30 | It was she who told me that Doogie was a commis chef at one of the better Park Lane hotels ( and I 'd said I had n't realized his politics were important and she 'd just looked at me ) and she was a journalist with one of the North London suburban weeklies . |