Example sentences of "he tell [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On The Waste Land specifically , he told one inquirer that the real meaning of the poem is that which it holds for whoever is reading it . |
| 2 | The opinion polls did n't matter , he told one rally after another . |
| 3 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 4 | In fact Lewis took some pride in his severe , no-nonsense attitude towards Eliot — " He does n't come in here disguised like Westminster Abbey ! " he told one friend . |
| 5 | There was a risk that he might overstrain and enlarge his heart : he told one visitor that the sensation was like that of " harbouring some runaway machine " . |
| 6 | He told one interviewer that there was little , if any , worthwhile poetry being written in England ; of the poetry of " the Movement " , then a fashionable group , he said that it showed neither motion nor direction , and he was also scornful of the present generation of critics and reviewers . |
| 7 | I want to do what I can to open the gateways , ’ he told New Scientist . |
| 8 | But , he told New Scientist , ‘ When a subject comes to us claiming these powers we take the claims at face value . ’ |
| 9 | John Hasted , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , University of London , and an investigator of the paranormal , was very wary when told that Shaw and Edwards had been fakers ‘ It 's possible that it 's true , ’ he told New Scientist Asked about his conclusions from his own work he said ‘ I accept that there are , shall we say , pulses of paranormal action which take the form of mini-acoustical shock waves . |
| 10 | ‘ But that 's the safest place they could possibly be , in my estimation ’ he told New Scientist last week . |
| 11 | ‘ The British are getting a hit nervous about the draft EEC directive regulating transboundary movement of wastes ’ , he told New Scientist . |
| 12 | He told New Scientist that ‘ fortunately neither the AGRs nor the PWRs have fuels which require early reprocessing , as the Magnox fuel does ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ To dump the machines in schools and then see them not used will look very bad , ’ he told New Scientist . |
| 14 | At major gatherings that is normally the president , ’ he told Europe-1 radio . |
| 15 | In 1927 ( when Eliot mentioned ‘ the Mongol in our midst ’ ) he told Bonamy Dobrée that he was preparing a small book , The Bolovian in Our Midst , proving that there was Bolovian blood in some of the leading figures of the day . |
| 16 | He told Labour MP Dennis Canavan that the assault cases were settled on the civil burden of proof , which had been ‘ assessed on the balance of probabilities rather than the criminal standard of beyond reasonable doubt . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would have told him outright : You should not say this … you have the wrong idea , ’ he told Dutch television . |
| 18 | The British have to end their predetermined belief that the suspects are guilty , ’ he told Associated Press . |
| 19 | ‘ We try to encourage as many as we can , ’ he told Hot Press , adding , ‘ young photographers have to start somewhere . |
| 20 | At a meeting at the White House in November 1943 , he told Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle , Under Secretary of State Edward Stettinius , and others that no single airline should dominate American airline services , and favoured a sectoral distribution of routes , of which Pan American would have some of the best . |
| 21 | Just before the verdict was announced he told Central South that he never attempted to gas his wife — and that it was all a plot by her to ruin his life . |
| 22 | Why … well pit talk has it that the reigning world champion Ayrton Senna might just be signing for the team next season … if he comes will Nigel go … what 's his future … this is what he told Central South … |
| 23 | Just a few hours before the verdict he told Central News that he believed the jury would find him not guilty . |
| 24 | In front of stunned mourners he told grieving widow Linsay Robinson to ‘ pay up or else ’ . |
| 25 | And he told top scorer Don Goodman : ‘ Get us more goals ! ’ |
| 26 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 27 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to put a stop to it , ’ he told Mexican television . |
| 29 | An ex-Army sergeant from Bedale , he told last year of using the conversation lines for up to ten hours at a time . |
| 30 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |