Example sentences of "[noun sg] told i the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The card told me the rest . |
| 2 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 3 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 4 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 5 | I was probably asleep when the robot teacher told me the answer to that ! |
| 6 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Common sense told me the news would break sooner or later , even if it was n't until my funeral , so on first being diagnosed , I had rung Clifford , with a statement to give to the press , should it become necessary , to the effect that my job was to make people forget their problems and not to talk about mine . |
| 8 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 9 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 10 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |