Example sentences of "told me [prep] [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 | In that case , he told me with a grim expression , there was something he had to warn me about . |
| 10 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 11 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 12 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 13 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 14 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 15 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 16 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 17 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 18 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 19 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 20 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 21 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 22 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 23 | Lissa 's money gave out , and she told me over an international phone hook-up that she was n't interested any more . |
| 24 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 25 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 26 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 27 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 28 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |