Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
2 | Then she told me that during the last winter , while I was in Sweden , my father had already had an attack , but they had not told me . |
3 | Polgar told me that in the early days of his marriage he examined the childhood of many famous persons and saw that geniuses all specialised in a field very early . |
4 | Major Roger Crees , the present clerk to the captains , told me that in the early days of the composite bow — which is made up of two or more materials glued together — the glues were not to be relied upon . |
5 | She told me that in the first dreadful night , when she and John stayed in the hospital , she had tried to soothe the time by the old paper game of making words out of words . |
6 | He told me that in the past insulin had been used to put people in coma states but he would n't dream of doing anything as crude or violent ; a silky drip of valium sedation was all that was required . |
7 | She told me that after the second , her son 's death , she was so angry with God that she refused to cry and found after her sister 's death , she was unable to . |
8 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |
9 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
10 | One told him that in the residential sector , placing authorities are often the last to realise that client abuse is going on . |