Example sentences of "[noun] he told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 2 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 3 | I knew that for him The Fat Controller confirmed it — I was his Wolf Man , his Anna O. He told me as much . |
| 4 | When I went to the linesman he told me to clear off . |
| 5 | But er he , he ca n't wait to get back , well he says he 's now ten days to ten days he told me . |
| 6 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 7 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 8 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 9 | In a burst of confidence one day he told me that he was working out a new system of numerology , developed from a study of people whose lives have been well documented . |
| 10 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
| 11 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 12 | Lou he told me . |
| 13 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 14 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 15 | Eddy himself lives in Oxford , and this morning he told me that the final piece of his Formula One jigsaw fell into place recently with a major sponsorship deal from soft drink manufacturers , Seven Up . |
| 16 | Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together . |
| 17 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 18 | ‘ That was the first thing he told me . |
| 19 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 20 | Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot . |
| 21 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 22 | Every time he told me , he started laughing . |