He had come off a training ship, the mate told me, and this was his first voyage to sea.

Any bird that mates for life will tell you the same thing.

As he enters the room, his mates tell him that they don't have time for this.

"A good wind at our back and a lake mist would have been best," the mate told them.

A young girl got attacked last week, my mate in the police told me.

A mate told the captain that the Malaysians were muttering among themselves, so he went to see about it.

Yeah cos, my mates were telling me the other day what's Gilly said?

Yeah, don't believe what your mates tell you, I know.

The mate told him in a whisper behind a cupped mouth.

Before he died, the complaint said, the mate told the crew what had happened.