Example sentences of "she told the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fuck off , ’ she told the bad-luck men . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , ’ Tallis said quickly , but she could n't help dropping her gaze as she told the partial lie , and when she looked back Wynne-Jones was not smiling . |
| 3 | ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play ! |
| 4 | One of us will be out in a minute , ’ she told the young nurse . |
| 5 | She told the poor people who had taken her in that the girl was illegitimate , and that she came from a bad family with an evil reputation . |
| 6 | She told The European newspaper : ‘ We have not been neutrals : we have been more like accomplices . ’ |
| 7 | She told the junior Health Minister , Mr Roger Freeman , who was attending the fellowship 's conference in London , that since 1971 more than 50,000 mental hospital beds have been lost ; fewer than one in ten have been replaced by residential places in the community . |
| 8 | I love you too , she told the scented air . |
| 9 | She told the former : |
| 10 | ‘ Come on , Raff , ’ she told the ginger kitten , ‘ it 's just you and me now your brothers have found good homes , and you make a good hot-water bottle . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Your roughs look really good , Charles , ’ she told the graphic designer . |
| 12 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 13 | She told the other girls about it and they found his ignorance quaint and charming . |
| 14 | Then , as she and Silvia packed up their things after their final English lesson , she told the other girl , ‘ I 'll be leaving tomorrow , just as soon as your exam is over . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ This is my office , ’ she told the other girl , adding wryly , ‘ A directorship just means that you get a share of the profits — and your name on the letterhead , of course ! ’ |
| 16 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 17 | ‘ Whatever the uncertainties the last few weeks may have brought I want you to be certain of this — our work together will continue unchanged , ’ she told the 40 charities of which she is patron . |
| 18 | ‘ Just for one day , ’ she told the bright-eyed Kirsty . |
| 19 | ‘ Laugh and have fun for the next two weeks because it 's what Les would have wanted , ’ she told the assembled guests at the launch at St George 's Hall . |
| 20 | ‘ The messages on our banners in 1979 — freedom , opportunity , family , enterprise , ownership — are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig , Warsaw , Budapest and even Moscow , ’ she told the enraptured Tory faithful at the close of the Blackpool conference . |
| 21 | ‘ During the holiday we saw Nicholas more than once , ’ she told the Daily Mail . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't worry , be strong , we 'll do what we can , ’ she told the frightened child , ‘ and the hand of the Lord will look after you . ’ |
| 23 | But when her husband Timothy Donovan was confronted with the evidence it ‘ completely finished the marriage ’ , she told the High Court yesterday . |
| 24 | She told the British Psychological Society that many mothers-in law were upset about their image — and they all hated mother-in-law jokes . |
| 25 | She told the National Enquirer that she had met the prince just months before the Duchess of York was snapped in intimate poses in the South of France with American financial adviser John Bryan , 37 . |
| 26 | While she drank her lemonade and ate her biscuits she told the old lady about Brownies and how she had left her bike on the edge of the wood . |
| 27 | ‘ Dr Jones 'll be in to look at that woman directly , Paddy , ’ she told the old porter as he ambled up . |
| 28 | Headlined Spare my life … rape me , she told the Old Bailey court ‘ He said ‘ I 'm going to kill you ’ . |