Example sentences of "told [noun] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his conviction Rashid told journalists that the guilty verdict " was a gift for the Americans " and that " the court had to find me guilty to balance the decision against extraditing me " . |
| 2 | • A new signal at the start of the race told drivers that the red light would come on in five seconds . |
| 3 | During the opening session , the IAEA Director-General , Hans Blix , told delegates that the current Gulf crisis reminded the world " once again of the need to diversify energy sources " . |
| 4 | Ryzhkov told Prunskiene that the Soviet authorities were to allow unconditionally the partial resumption of natural gas and raw material supplies to selected Lithuanian enterprises ( the gas supplies resumed on June 16 ) . |
| 5 | Shevardnadze told reporters that the two sides had discussed the Cambodia issue in depth and that he and Qian believed that a " decisive phase had been reached " in the settlement of the problem [ see also p. 37712 ] . |
| 6 | Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Arens told reporters that the second phase of the arrow programme would be financed on the basis of 72 per cent US support and 28 per cent Israeli support . |
| 7 | Christopher Trickie and his Wife … told Mogg that the French people had taken the plan of their House , and that They had also taken the plan of all the places round that part of the Country , that a Brook runs in the front of Trickie 's House and the French people inquired of Trickie wether the Brook was Navigable to the Sea , and upon being informed by Trickie that It was not , they were afterwards seen examining the Brook quite down to the Sea . |
| 8 | His servant came to pack his clothes , and while he was doing this , he told Dorian that the dead man was a sailor , but no one knew his name . |