Example sentences of "[adv] told [pers pn] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er cos I think you just told us that man you know |
| 2 | But then I just told you that . |
| 3 | ‘ I just told you that , Charles . |
| 4 | ‘ I think you already told me that , ’ said Twoflower . |
| 5 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 6 | Another journalist , the political columnist Alexander Cockburn , once told me that , on balance , he was relived not to have reported on Vietnam because he had observed that those who had , found it difficult to leave the subject alone . |
| 7 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 8 | He probably told you that just to explain things . |
| 9 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 10 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 11 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 12 | They also told us that next time they would hold people in custody until the next court sitting . ’ |
| 13 | I think I even told you that at one point . |
| 14 | Do you know a , a hairdresser years ago told me that . |
| 15 | He immediately told me that to do a smoothly coned skirt would be vastly expensive in terms of bending and shaping wood , and equally expensive to do as the multi-part mould which he reckoned was necessary because of the protruding hemispheres . |
| 16 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 17 | And there 's a photograph in th I never told him that |
| 18 | ‘ You never told me that , Marie . |
| 19 | It was n't a very dangerous operation , but they never told me that . |
| 20 | ‘ You never told me that ! |
| 21 | You never told me that ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No , she never told me that . |
| 23 | You never told us that ! |
| 24 | You never told us that before ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm called Breeze , but I never told you that . |
| 26 | ‘ Presumably she never told you that either ? |
| 27 | I 'm sure she never told you that . |
| 28 | ‘ He actually told you that ? ’ |