Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we reached Dunkil we could have done two things , we could have said to the Bible class , We had a marvellous journey up and told them all about the glory of God as we saw him in the mountains , or we could have said , We almost had an accident on our way up here . |
| 2 | The sergeant told them all about the cattle trucks and how Charles had soon put a stop to that . |
| 3 | Moore told them all about the events of the previous nights . |
| 4 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 5 | My doctor told me all about the pill before he prescribed it . |
| 6 | ‘ My dad told me all about the strings and stuff . ’ |
| 7 | He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it . |
| 8 | As I was recovering , Hannah , the housekeeper , came to sit with me , and told me all about the family . |
| 9 | Charlotte told me this in a letter she sent from Scarborough , a town by the sea on the north-east coast . |
| 10 | ‘ Frank Griffith told you all about the letters ? ’ |
| 11 | I think I told you this by the way , this I want to describe to you now is the same for all of them . |
| 12 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 13 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |