Example sentences of "he tell the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will flout authority in whatever form , ’ he told the Teesside Business Briefing in Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | He told the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee that the recession would be ’ shallow and short-lived ’ . |
| 3 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 4 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 5 | Sometimes this seemed indicated , as when he told the legislature they must beware ‘ When we are freeing ourselves from one form of imperialism [ against those who would ] … bind us to another one which would swiftly undo all the work that has been done in recent years to foster … a free and independent nation ’ ; ‘ As we would not have British masters , so we would not have Russian masters . ’ |
| 6 | When asked , he told the labourer : ‘ I am Hauptmann Alfred Horn . ’ |
| 7 | In it he told the king that he had heard of the outbreak of war in Wales while ‘ ordering and attending to the state of my affairs in Champagne ’ . |
| 8 | On 16 May 1935 he told the King of his intention to resign . |
| 9 | For the clergy to grant such a request as Edward was now making would undoubtedly require , in the archbishop 's mind , papal assent , and so he told the king . |
| 10 | He told the King that he would prefer MacDonald to remain in office in order to carry out the necessary programme of economies ; but that if he failed to carry enough of his colleagues with him , then the best alternative would be for MacDonald to head a National Government containing members of all three parties . |
| 11 | But already on the Sunday Baldwin had seen Stamfordham : ‘ He had appealed , ’ he told the King 's Private Secretary , ‘ to the people to trust him , as in 1924 , and they had refused . |
| 12 | He told the Minister there was an urgent need for ‘ political movement ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ My great fear , ’ he told the Society of Conservative Accountants last month , ‘ is that we will be back in just the same position again in the next recession . |
| 14 | He told the society 's annual meeting at Gleneagles Hotel that the problems of delay , out-of-date procedure , expense and waste all demanded radical and innovative thinking . |
| 15 | Ali had an aunt in Southfields , but , he told the headmaster , she was doomed to everlasting hell-fire . |
| 16 | Hamilton resolutely destroyed the patriotic myth that most Scots would kill to wear the navy jersey when he told the press , ‘ I 'd rather stay home and play golf . ’ |
| 17 | He told the press that he attributed his sudden success in the movies to his parents for their unwavering support throughout the years . |
| 18 | He told the press , ‘ Everyone has been truly wonderful to me . |
| 19 | On July 20 he told the press of plans for regular consultations between Turkish Foreign Ministry and US State Department officials , appropriate to " the strategic dimension that our relations have already reached " . |
| 20 | Settlement ‘ I would have thought that they would have learned from the public ridicule of the last month and made certain that they did n't get up to these things again , ’ he told the Press Association . |
| 21 | As he told the press of his son 's death , Mr Parry spoke with remarkable composure but he fought to hold back tears when asked if he felt anger for the IRA . |
| 22 | He told the Press that publicity surrounding the demonstration had obviously kept some constituents away because he usually met as many as 15 in Rhyl . |
| 23 | He told The Scotsman the other day , ’ the only thing that can stop us is the Labour party . ’ |
| 24 | Two years ago , before he received an honorary doctorate at Stirling University , he told The Scotsman that the researchers had not been speaking to each other . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 26 | He told The Scotsman : ‘ I think we have a moral responsibility to help these countries . |
| 27 | He told the Institute of Chartered Accountants that recent failures had highlighted weaknesses in accounts . |
| 28 | He told the Institute of Petroleum dinner in London last night that the commission would only impose the levy — applied to fuels on a tapering scale based on emissions of carbon dioxide — if major trading partners did likewise . |
| 29 | He told the judge that he would not be instructed for the retrial . |
| 30 | Instead he told the judge that if he let his son go free , he would see to it that his got into no more trouble . |