Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , no , I now rank as an important contact , a senior opinion-former , or so she flatteringly told me . |
| 2 | Later I asked Mala the original of that unlikely nickname , but she merely told me , with a faint blush , that is was none of my business . |
| 3 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 4 | ‘ You already told me what Mr. Bonanza simply feels . |
| 5 | ‘ I think you already told me that , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 6 | You must n't tell a living soul what you just told me . |
| 7 | GUIL : You just told me — how do you know ? |
| 8 | Cos you just told me to use a wee bit of it . |
| 9 | Tell him what you just told me about his spring collection and you 'll have him eating out of your hand . ’ |
| 10 | I would n't i , oh you just told me you did ! |
| 11 | You just told me it was , yes . |
| 12 | no , no cos she just told me this morning you were going to see her work in the morning . |
| 13 | erm , oh what did Pat tell me ? , she just told me yesterday |
| 14 | so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week |
| 15 | Dad , dad , Auntie has to go somewhere I do n't know where , but she just told me to call you cos it 's quarter past fifteen minutes past six or is it seven ? |
| 16 | No until she just told me now . |
| 17 | But she just told me she wanted her hair done . |
| 18 | MAX : She always told me you did n't believe in Freud . |
| 19 | But she always told me |
| 20 | ‘ I remember you once told me how you spent a lot of time on the Algarve when you were young , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but I had no idea which area you came to . ’ |
| 21 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 22 | You always told me that if I worked hard , one day , I would go for Secondary . |
| 23 | ‘ You always told me she was my mother 's sister . |
| 24 | ‘ I know where every bone in a chicken is , ’ she once told me , licking her fingers as she removed the umpteenth . |
| 25 | She once told me that she could never commit suicide because of her curiosity about what was going to happen next . |
| 26 | She felt guilty , she once told me . |
| 27 | ‘ An old woman of ninety — she 's dead now but she used to live near here — she once told me there was an ancient noble family of a name like yours , who came from here originally . |
| 28 | It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind . |
| 29 | She once told me , in a voice full of hatred and contempt , that Mandy and Debby have been known to do escort work , the deal being as follows : the punter pays the agency £15 per date , of which the chick gets two . |
| 30 | Even though she once told me she did n't really care much for men , she said it was fun to see the way they reacted to her . |