Example sentences of "that [noun prp] tell [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
| 2 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 3 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , this is all stuff that Andy told me , so it could be just a story , but I 'd bet that up to that point it 's all true . |
| 5 | It is a creation of society , not of individual reasoning or emotion , though it may satisfy both ; and it is for this reason that Durkheim tells us that a psychological interpretation of a social fact is invariably a wrong interpretation . |
| 6 | I know that Hammond told them to fuck off . |
| 7 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 8 | She whispered that Klaus told her she must take the message from me after I 'd read it . |
| 9 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 10 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 11 | One evening after dinner Wendell Harvey had demanded that Aubrey tell them about his childhood at The Grange , and how Harry had become involved with the family . |
| 12 | There was her grandmother , solid and real , who could offer her stories nearly as miraculous as those that Fenna told her and which would have the miraculous ponderousness of fact . |
| 13 | ‘ From your conversation with Nina , can I assume that Jennifer told you why I visited her last night ? ’ |
| 14 | on crime reminds me that Bob told me only he does n't , he does n't know how much Bridget knows , so we must n't say anything to her , but he said that there is some possibility that she may get erm , I think April time she may be made what 's called Court Officer |
| 15 | Something that Sandra told me . |
| 16 | Its tone is such that Cordelia tells us , alone , that she can not compete with it : ‘ What shall Cordelia speak ? |
| 17 | Earlier Colin Telfer , 46 , a Bell Lawrie salesman , said he had talked to Mackie but denied that Mackie told him Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning . |
| 18 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 19 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 20 | Like get back the dustbins which took them out but she did n't bring them back at the end of the drive erm and I hope that Paul tells him off ! |
| 21 | ‘ And I think that Archie told you that your cottage used to be where his family lived . |
| 22 | Did I tell you about the cocktail that Sal told me called erm |
| 23 | I am informed that Calderdale tells us that about 11 per cent . |
| 24 | The only thing that I said was erm that Tony told us that you keep your game tonight so that you 've got a friend any time you want . |
| 25 | For it was around eleven that morning , when she returned to her office after going to consult Dave Smith about some matter , that Jimmy told her chirpily , ‘ I knew I did n't put this tie on for nothing . |