Example sentences of "[noun prp] told [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 2 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 3 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 4 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 5 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 6 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 7 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 9 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 10 | So Ruth told her the truth , but not quite the whole truth since she kept Dick 's name out of it . |
| 11 | Ellie told him the truth . |
| 12 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 13 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |
| 14 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 15 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 16 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 17 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't see what difference it makes , people 's ages , ’ he said when Carrie told him the girls in her class thought this odd . |
| 19 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 20 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 21 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 22 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |
| 23 | He showed no surprise when Blanche told him the number plate of the car was false , and Nowak emphasised he did not want the police to press charges if the driver was found . |
| 24 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 25 | I think Joe told him the name of his attackers , and it 's obviously someone … someone … " |
| 26 | He listened while Gabriel told him the day 's events . |
| 27 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 28 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 29 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 30 | Belov told her the name of the village . |