Example sentences of "[pron] told me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 2 | And of those girls in the pub , it was one of them told me about it — ’ |
| 3 | None of them told me about it . |
| 4 | Michelle , who was taking the drug Epilim , said at her home in Whyteleaf , Surrey : ‘ None of them told me about the risk of having a handicapped baby . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 6 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 7 | Nobody told me about a bar graph . |
| 8 | If somebody told me to strictly control the car I would put both hands on the steering wheel but not necessarily both feet on the er brake pedal . |
| 9 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 10 | It did n't get any better and somebody told me about and I took her down there , oh Mrs she 's picked up mange , I said mange , I know she said you feel just like when your child 's got nits in their hair |
| 11 | Erm confused as hell until somebody told me about having a pie . |
| 12 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 13 | There was the gentle , bearded Hans Jenisch who told me of his hesitancy before giving the orders to fire torpedoes . |
| 14 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 15 | ‘ [ The defendant ] is a violent man who told me of his past and of his having shot and killed at least three other men . |
| 16 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 17 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 18 | Last ti me I dined at Balliol I sat next to the Regius Professor of Chemistry , aged around 193 , who told me about his visit to Egypt before the war , probably the Boer War . |
| 19 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 20 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 21 | Having disposed of the simple administrative matter in a commonsense way , I then spoke to Chris protheroe who told me about the fatigue failure of the right stabiliser spar . |
| 22 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 23 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 24 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 25 | It was Kevin who told me about Julie 's accident . |
| 26 | The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’ |
| 27 | It was Mozaffar Alam , the Mughal historian , who told me about a book which became one of my favourite Delhi texts : the Muraqqa'-e-Dehli . |
| 28 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 29 | This I could have done from the Royal College — but it was Oxford I wanted — and to go to Somerville where I had a friend who told me about it . |
| 30 | Does he agree with the Prime Minister who told me in a letter this week that even that does not justify a special economic initiative or does he agree with local industry which is crying out for a partnership with Government to take Britain out of recession ? |