Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos she goes erm she goes I told her right and she goes well you 're going to are n't you ? |
| 2 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 3 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 4 | Well I actually went back and said I do n't think it 's going to cost anything , I told him original twenty four thou- , and I 've halved it too about twelve thou . |
| 5 | You told me blue . |
| 6 | ‘ She told me certain things which happened when you were very small . ’ |
| 7 | She told him sorry , |
| 8 | After Lucien got to know her better , she told him shocking things . |
| 9 | And she told him wonderful tales , about the sea.king 's palace , about the windswept isle of Bujan and the amber stone Alatyr , about Perun , the god of the thunder , about the dragon of Lake Rikavatz and the Zmayevska Vatra , the dragons ' fire , which lies deep down below the round of the world . |
| 10 | And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved . |
| 11 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 12 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 13 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 14 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 15 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
| 16 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 17 | He told us terrible tales of people being crushed in crowds , of school finances being wasted on unnecessary floor cleaning bills and of ‘ softies ’ who needed seats when there was a perfectly good floor to sit on ( all the teachers were sat on chairs around the edge of the sports hall at this point , but I do n't think they took it personally ) . |
| 18 | ‘ He told us other rises throughout the country have averaged around 50 per cent . ’ |