Example sentences of "told [pers pn] of [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 2 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 3 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 4 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 5 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 6 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 7 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 8 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 9 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 10 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |