Example sentences of "told the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Onanuga told the other shop assistant a full 10 days before details of Mr Lamont 's credit card overspending were published that he personally served the Chancellor . |
| 2 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in late August Yeltsin told the Japanese Kyodo news agency that he had achieved a " personal reconciliation " with Gorbachev . |
| 4 | The Bulgarian President , Zhelyu Zhelev , told the Czechoslovakian news agency CTK on Feb. 1 that it was " generally known that the Warsaw Pact ( had ) outlived its time " , and that Bulgaria was also planning to leave the organization . |
| 5 | ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play ! |
| 6 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 7 | They told the remaining post office staff not to raise the alarm for another thirty minutes . |
| 8 | Rodger Pannone , a solicitor involved in the Piper Alpha , King 's Cross and M1 air disasters , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg : ‘ Unless there are damages awards — which must be uninsurable - of hundreds of thousands , if not millions , of pounds in certain circumstances , bad companies have no threat or incentive to make products and services safer . ’ |
| 9 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 10 | The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg . |
| 11 | Electronics industry consultant Bob Heikes reckons he 's likely to hang on to the job , but for all the wrong reasons : ‘ Bull is hopeless , ’ he told the International Herald Tribune — ‘ a new guy is n't going to make any difference . ’ |
| 12 | In 1986 , J. Hillis Miller , than whom no one is better placed to judge , told the Modern Language Association of America that by the mid-1980s critical theory had shifted from invoking ‘ language ’ as a prime foundational term to a cluster of words which included ‘ history ’ , ‘ politics ’ , ‘ society ’ , and ‘ culture ’ . |
| 13 | Mr Gould told the Labour Party Conference : ‘ We have a Prime Minister who lives in a sort of Walter Mitty land . |
| 14 | The right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) told the Labour party conference — |
| 15 | The right hon. Member for Gorton told the Labour party conference : ’ Over our first Parliament we shall increase Britain 's aid budget to the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 16 | ‘ You just take your bag through another entrance and no-one knows what 's in it — drugs , weapons or whatever , ’ Tamerlan Musajev told the Swedish news agency TT yesterday . |
| 17 | He told the Annual Chemical Congress in Manchester yesterday : ‘ Cigarette smoke , moisture from exhalation , aromas and smells from food and goodness knows what else are the cause . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Records will show very shortly that we have not had a typical winter for this part of the country and that seems to be the main reason , ’ he told the environmental health committee yesterday . |
| 19 | Juan Bosch Gaviño , 82 , on March 15 told the Dominican Liberation Party ( PLD ) , which he had formed in 1973 after breaking from the Dominican Revolutionary Party ( PRD ) , that he had decided not only to resign as party leader but also to withdraw his party membership , because of the bitter fighting between the right and left wings of the party . |
| 20 | He had come , he told the Daily Mirror reporter , to be there ‘ in case the Fascists cause trouble ’ . |
| 21 | I told the whole news team yesterday , William , Paul , Lucy , Gorgeous , Abby , Alex , and you yourself , Oxford will win . |
| 22 | ‘ We suffered all kinds of punishment , ’ one witness told the Brazilian Justice Ministry . |
| 23 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |
| 24 | ‘ I am more uncertain about the real state of our economy than at any time since I can remember , ’ he told the Foreign Press Association in London . |
| 25 | A government official told the Libyan news agency that large numbers of illegal immigrants had found their way into Libya by desert routes without passports and some had been found to be suffering from serious diseases . |
| 26 | Headlined Spare my life … rape me , she told the Old Bailey court ‘ He said ‘ I 'm going to kill you ’ . |
| 27 | The paper 's QC , George Carman , told the High Court jury that by taking his family on a free Spanish holiday with Mrs Bauwens during the Gulf crisis , Mr Mellor had made a serious error of judgment . |
| 28 | ‘ Scouting attracts the hooligans , ’ he told the National Defence Association in 1910 , ‘ who are really the fellows of character if you can turn them in the right way ; and no doubt these fellows will be of some use to us in the future instead of being absolute waste material , fit only to be buried . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Patten told the National House Building Council in London that his aim in the public rental sector was not to move to market-level rents or to end rent subsidies for the less well off . |
| 30 | He told the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) afterwards that the former Soviet states wanted to implement the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe ( CFE ) on troop reductions , and now had to decide how to apportion their shares of troop numbers under the treaty 's overall ceiling for the former Soviet Union . |