Example sentences of "he told me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 2 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 3 | Then he told me about his climb up Iceland 's highest mountain . |
| 4 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 5 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 6 | However , I can remember clearly my own alarm , bordering on terror , when he told me about the Butcher 's measuring rod . |
| 7 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 8 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 9 | He told me about Aunt Emily … and Mr Spot . ’ |
| 10 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 11 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |
| 12 | We walked solemnly around Gloucester in and out of the Cathedral precincts while he told me about his childhood . |
| 13 | I told him the story of my adventures and about life in England , and he told me about his country and his people . |
| 14 | He told me about the cross . |
| 15 | Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent . |
| 16 | He told me about it , but … well , I wanted to see whether it really was the kind of thing I wanted . ’ |
| 17 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 18 | I suppose I should be grateful he told me about the call at all , but he had to really , did n't he ? |
| 19 | He told me about himself and where he was staying and about how people treated him . |
| 20 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 21 | He told me about it when I had dinner with him on the Monday evening . |
| 22 | He told me about an old school behind a high wall in a dirty street . |
| 23 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Anyway , he told me about the necessity of recasting . |
| 25 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 26 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 27 | And I made them jigs and whatnot. when they come to do it at Dolgarrog when they come to want them doing I said to the to the the chief engineer I said , he told me about they were going get these commutators done here machine . |
| 28 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 29 | He told me about it . ’ |
| 30 | One of the speakers that evening was Gordon Gissing , so I had no hesitation when he told me about his visit to a picturesque narrow ( metre ) gauge system in East Germany , and offered to give us a talk on it . |