Example sentences of "told [pron] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 2 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 3 | ‘ I did put my arm around his shoulders at the end and he told me he did not mean anything malicious . |
| 4 | In a rare interview , Arkan told me he did not despise Albanian people . |
| 5 | But he told me he did not take any clubs abroad with him . ’ |
| 6 | She told herself she did not care about the fact that he was already married but was equally scarred by the knowledge that he did have a wife . |
| 7 | A photographer from Melody Maker wanted Gedge to pose with an accordion but Gedge told him he did not play the instrument , but Solowka did . |
| 8 | " But I told him I did not feel I should play . |
| 9 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 10 | She added : ‘ I told him I did not know who had thrown the food . |
| 11 | She added : ‘ I told him I did not know who had thrown the food he said he had seen me . |
| 12 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 13 | A top firm of criminal lawyers told us they did not believe that the chances of a successful prosecution fell below 50 per cent — the CPS 's normal test . |
| 14 | And she also told us she did not know where Frank was . |