Example sentences of "told me [that] [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 . |