Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [det] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
2 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
3 | and he was saying , told me some of the different names , you know , other than pine , I suppose their name for whatever these pines were , the timber there was beautiful |
4 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
5 | She needed to know that you loved her ; so you told her all about the new drugs she could get from the Arcturans , or the huge advances in radiation treatment since rho mesons had been discovered . |
6 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |