Example sentences of "[noun sg] told [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile a leading advocate of stockpiling told New Scientist that if the government decides to go ahead , it should keep the news to itself . |
2 | All the recruits were dressed in blue tracksuits and the Corporal told one of them to show me a bed and explain what was going on . |
3 | As one of the scientists who vetoed foam insulation told New Scientist . |
4 | Talb became a suspect after his ex-wife told Swedish police in May that he had visited Malta in October 1988 , apparently buying clothes there . |
5 | The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance — it was now up to him to take it . |
6 | I had repeated a story told some weeks before by our minister at the chapel , and he was one of the party guests . |
7 | ‘ ECT is usually left to junior members of the staff … with little training and guidance ’ , A leading psychiatrist in the field told New Scientist that ‘ the commonest misuse of ECT is on people who are really unhappy , distressed or sad , rather than ill with a depressive illness . ’ |
8 | I did n't want to stay there — I wanted to go home , but Mum told this old woman my name who smiled at me and showed me my bed and that . |
9 | A DISTRAUGHT mum told last night how her little girl is hooked on smoking — at the age of TWO . |
10 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
11 | Afterwards the girl told two other supervisors , one of whom said McConville was ‘ not like that ’ . |
12 | The 40-year-old told one of the sisters if anyone asked who the father of her baby daughter was she should lie and say it was her boyfriend , Leeds Crown Court was told . |
13 | Back in July , the Queen told Premier John Major that the royal marriage was in a desperate situation . |
14 | ‘ 'If this is the price of public life , then it is a price I am no longer willing to pay , ’ the anguished princess told one friend . ’ |
15 | ‘ If this is the price of public life , then it is a price I am no longer willing to pay , ’ the anguished Princess told one friend . ’ |
16 | Neil Miller dealing director told all dealers to make frequent use of them , primarily for getting quotes on listed or USM stock from the market-makers ' room adjacent , in which dealers were now forbidden to foray , but also for fetching new dealing books , notebooks , cups of coffee , etc . |
17 | Thousand of households would benefit from pylons scheme , inquiry told Thousands of households in the area would benefit from the new pylons scheme proposed for Cleveland and North Yorkshire , a barrister told a public inquiry which opened this week . |
18 | A sign told visiting gentlemen to remove their hats ; it was the kind of sign you 'd see in the Duomo in Florence ; in some parts of America , war still demands what passes for reverence . |
19 | GRAHAM Gooch last night told beaten Pakistan : ‘ There is no way we are going to feel sorry for you . |
20 | ‘ I was devastated , ’ the clerical assistant told Sterling Sheriff Court . |
21 | A BRITISH passenger told last night of the moment he was separated from his wife by a wall of flames as their holiday jet crash-landed . |
22 | THE parents of a little boy who died after being knocked down while learning his Green Cross Code told last night how he made them promise to give his organs to suffering children . |
23 | A PETROL station owner told last night how he fought off two masked youths who tried to snatch his takings . |
24 | Prosecuting manufacturers of pseudo-vitamins under the Trades Descriptions Act is difficult , a spokesman for the Department of Trade told New Scientist . |
25 | Doctors last week told 28-year-old Karen Carter she had ovarian cancer — 75 per cent of those with the disease die from it . |
26 | A blunt letter last week told all clubs without floodlights that unless they were up and shining by 1993–94 and to 120 lux , a higher standard than many existing installations they 'd be banned from the FA Cup . |
27 | Sir David Phillips , chairman on the Advisory Board for the Research Councils , this week told New Scientist that he has ‘ detected a reluctance on the part of the research councils to get involved with such methods . |
28 | GOVERNMENT TOLD THAT APPOINTMENT OF / TEMPORARY JUDGES COULD LEAD TO / MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE |
29 | THE GOVERNMENT told British firms to go on exporting to Iraq , even though it knew parts were being used to build up Saddam 's war machine . |
30 | ‘ People think that you do n't need wood for a cremation , — the spokesman told New ’ Scientist , ‘ but you do , because bones are very difficult to burn , as that chap in North London found out . |