Example sentences of "he told [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face . |
| 2 | On the return journey he told her all about himself and he held up his left hand for her scrutiny . |
| 3 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 4 | He told her that being firm , sticking to one 's guns in situations of this kind , always paid off . |
| 5 | He told her some more , including complex words she could not follow and which she was sure she was not meant to . |
| 6 | And then he told him clever , amusing stories about the women that he himself had loved . |
| 7 | Erm he , he told him this morning on the phone , he 's looked into it , he 's the director and he apologizes . |
| 8 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 9 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 10 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 11 | Those coppers had been assembling , you see , so I lurked in the shadows and watched , and when the Top Cop turned up he told them all to get in the Black Maria . |
| 12 | He told them another long joke and won a laugh out of Bella that sealed the success of the evening for him . |
| 13 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 14 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 15 | He told them both never to leave the house again , and stormed out of the room , slamming the door hard enough to break a chunk of plaster out of the wall . |
| 16 | But he told me that , in the eyes of the law , theft is actually a lesser charge than handling stolen goods If there were n't people handling stolen goods then nobody would nick things in the first place . |
| 17 | He told me that himself . |
| 18 | He told me that . ’ |
| 19 | Yes , he told me that , though I never met Sibelius personally . |
| 20 | Sure enough , he told me that 's what they planned for him . |
| 21 | He told me that with chicken pox I should n't be with the team , and he kept making remarks which made me feel embarrassed . |
| 22 | He told me that … there were 5 sins he could remember to-day , |
| 23 | He told me that — ’ |
| 24 | He told me that , when he heard in 1957 that his father was dead , his immediate reaction was ‘ Which ? ’ ' |
| 25 | He told me that , at that time , his anxieties were so deeply felt that he sought the advice of his doctor . |
| 26 | He told me that , many years before , she had been jealous of her husband and another woman , and had been accused of murdering this woman . |
| 27 | He told me that . |
| 28 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose you mean about Matthew ; he told me that . ’ |
| 30 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |