Example sentences of "told [pron] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them that many children learned more slowly . |
| 2 | When he did appear through the darkness , he was in a foul mood , and told them that several bombs had failed to explode . |
| 3 | The co-ordinator told me that many people who had come to therapy groups for anxieties or depressions were now volunteer workers . |
| 4 | Hawking meanwhile , has a simple explanation for its success : ‘ Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales . |
| 5 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 6 | Jamila told me that one day Anwar came into the shop and discovered Changez snoring as he sat on his stool , while in front of his closed eyes an SL was shoving a jar of herrings down his trousers . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , I remember … when I said you never talked about your parents , and you told me that one day you would tell me all about them . |
| 8 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 9 | Told me that one youth was in custody and another due to appear in court for the break-ins . |
| 10 | But out of earshot of the boss , one of the workers told me that two campers had been mauled only the previous week . |
| 11 | ‘ They told me that this year they have employed a private contractor who is supposed to cut grass at least twice a month and weed once a month but its not happening , ’ he added . |
| 12 | But the wisdom of age told me that this parabola of promise would not be maintained indefinitely , but would peak and then decline . |
| 13 | Her triumphant smile told me that this time Jessica 's husband had excelled himself . |
| 14 | They told me that this sort of thing happens , it 's part of training , and to stick in there and show the buggers they were wrong . ’ |
| 15 | Her friend told me that this baby wants for nothing , it is the best dressed baby In the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Only a few girls told me that these matters were ever discussed within their families . |
| 17 | You 're pleased about his engagement — he told me that some time ago — and you 've as good as admitted it tonight . ’ |
| 18 | Poole told me that some people were also shocked because John , in his role as the Devil , ‘ disguised himself as a girl in point shoes , a tutu and a blonde wig , with his devil 's horns showing through ’ . |
| 19 | Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided . |
| 20 | He told himself that all men were cowards when it came to a showdown with a woman . |
| 21 | Later , Lucien told himself that this shadow had been of the future . |
| 22 | Crossing the worse danger zones was like some horrible game of ‘ Last Across ’ ; they told you that forty cuistots had got across safely since the last casualty ; you waited for the explosion , then staggered frantically over the open space , knowing that if you were No. 41 the next shell probably had your name on it . |
| 23 | Another part of him — not a customs officer — told him that guilty people were dangerous , and he wondered in panic what she would do . |
| 24 | Sentencing Harris , Lord Sutherland , told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent . |
| 25 | " He used to travel in prahus as a young man , then a guru told him that one day he would die by water . |
| 26 | When she resumed her story her voice was different , flat and uninflected , as she told him that one day a journalist and a photographer had come to Chastlecombe to do a feature on the shopping arcade for the colour magazine of one of the Sunday papers . |
| 27 | Louise told him that young children were n't allowed in the front of cars . |
| 28 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 29 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 30 | Also on Feb. 24 Qian had an unscheduled meeting with Takeshita when he told him that full normalization of Sino-Japanese relations could hinge on Japan 's " correct understanding of history " . |