Example sentences of "[conj] they told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 2 | She said , no you write and he 'll , she 'll write back , you see but , and he went out to France and he was killed in three months and and his name , so they told me was on the er , on the board at er . |
| 3 | I went to see them as well and they told me to fill in another form . |
| 4 | ‘ They could see I was taking it easier on some of the sessions and they told me so . |
| 5 | Anyway , I was told to accompany David on the Express if I could get a visa and off I went to Washington DC to apply for one and they told me absolutely not — I could n't have one — go away . |
| 6 | Audrey said : ‘ I talked to a lot of women jockeys to research my part and they told me men getting heavy with them is common in the racing world . ’ |
| 7 | Still they were a generous , friendly bunch and they told me to make myself at home until the editorial meeting later in the afternoon . |
| 8 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 9 | I knew people who had been to prison and they told me , ‘ It 's really bad in there , it 's hard . |
| 10 | I fetched the rum and they told me to go away . |
| 11 | And they told me my flat 's and go , you know I can move I 'm gon na pack everything before even a house comes through . |
| 12 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 13 | And er , that 's right and they told me what they wanted and er that 's right , there was a hundred and fifty-five locks . |
| 14 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 15 | I went downstairs and they told me they had just got married . |
| 16 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 17 | And they told me that I can have a job back there any time I want . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 19 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 20 | I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to the surgery first , and they told me you 'd taken responsibility for the two of them . |
| 22 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 23 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 24 | ‘ I have to find the money myself and they told me that the wackier the ideas , the better the response so I am hoping that my ideas come off . ’ |
| 25 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 26 | I went for an audition and they told me to come back in six months time I was determined to get the part so I practised day and night to be him . ’ |
| 27 | and they told me it was , very , very urgent ! |
| 28 | and they told me that I was too late , the school told me too late |
| 29 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 30 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |