Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [that] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 2 | Roy Dickens , one of our 400 metre runners , told me that on one occasion he and his brother Brian were shopping with their mother when a white man mugged an old lady and ran off with her handbag . |
| 3 | Sir Reginald also told me that on one occasion when there was suspicion of corruption about a certain appointment , he had called U Saw to him and said , ‘ I hear that you have accepted Rs5,000 for this appointment . |
| 4 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 5 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 6 | They told me that in four or five years , it could get worse and would get arthritic . |
| 7 | Rather breathlessly , he told her that despite this , no one and nothing could take from them what had been . |
| 8 | I told her that at last I knew what really had happened to my father , her beloved husband , the man who had laid down his life for his country . |
| 9 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 10 | She told us that in 1979 unemployment was increasing at the astronomical figure of two thousand three hundred a week . |