Example sentences of "he [adv] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 2 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 3 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 4 | ‘ He just told me ‘ You have n't got a job and that 's it . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't know I have n't looked at the invitation , he just told me when he came home from school he 'd got a party . |
| 6 | I offered to give him a game or two if he needed the practice but , as he soon told me , snooker training is a lot more complicated than that nowadays . |
| 7 | I did n't see any of that crazy side that he always told me was there . |
| 8 | ‘ He always told me he never would use drugs . |
| 9 | ‘ I never raised hell , amigo , ’ he once told me . |
| 10 | ‘ Had a driving offence or two , ’ he once told me , ‘ but I never broke the law by smashing up pubs and restaurants . |
| 11 | True love can survive absence , death and infidelity , he once told me ; true lovers can go ten years without meeting . |
| 12 | I remember he once told me not to move the head too much as it weighs 22lbs . |
| 13 | They 'd never understood him or what he was trying to do , he once told me . |
| 14 | He once told me that if his right hand knew what his left was doing , he would cut it off . ’ |
| 15 | He once told me that he found a company of not more than eleven people the most congenial . |
| 16 | He once told me not to be afraid as my death was many years off and would come in a way I least expected . |
| 17 | He once told me , ‘ You ca n't trust them you know . |
| 18 | He also told me that I now had a younger brother , Russell , which made me feel excited and wonder that he could be like . |
| 19 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 20 | He told me that you and Sophie had been there ; he also told me that Marianne had disappeared . |
| 21 | According to Lawrence , they drink nothing but jackdaw and pigeon blood — he also told me they were brought here by Crusaders returned from the Holy Land , which sounds about right — but I do n't buy the other : blood is blood , I reckon . |
| 22 | ‘ He also told me you were an actress , ’ he stated . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When I was in performance of my duties , he distinctly told me that the Prince would be poisoned . |
| 25 | And I think I believed , or tried to believe , him when he repeatedly told me that the restrictions he placed upon me were for my own good . |
| 26 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 27 | ‘ The Magi had come again , ’ he later told me . |
| 28 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 29 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 30 | 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 . |