Example sentences of "as [pron] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Marguerite already knows her son is a villain , as you told me before . |
| 2 | What I do know 's probably distorted , as you told me once in London . |
| 3 | I watched half of it last week , as soon as you told me off I I put it off . |
| 4 | She sounded distant and cold as she told me she would marry the man her father had selected from millions , and that was the end of it . |
| 5 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 6 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 7 | She was pleased at the distinction , and amused , as she told me , that twice she had been decorated by a Labour government ; she almost felt she ought to vote for them ! |
| 8 | As she told me : ‘ I had no question about saying straight away after our first picture together that Kenneth Williams was the one I would choose to spend time with on a desert island . ’ |
| 9 | As one told me : ‘ He 's obnoxious and sometimes uninformed , and he preys on people 's primal fears and that 's a shame . |
| 10 | No doubt if I had responded to Hilda and Annie and the rest as they told me I should respond , as they all told me my true nature , my deeper nature was crying out to respond , I would be surrounded today by love and wives and children and the rest . |
| 11 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 12 | He cackled as he told me of his plan . |
| 13 | Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth . |
| 14 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 15 | He was not a bad looker , I thought , and shook hands as he told me his name was Freddy . |
| 16 | ‘ His present Head is hopeful , but , as he told me , no-one can predict exam . |
| 17 | From that time , he made it his ambition to become ‘ another Jack Johnson ’ , as he told me : ‘ It was a kind of inspiration to me as I was the only black kid in the area . |
| 18 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 19 | I did as he told me , eidetically filling in the missing mass of water . |
| 20 | He , too , was being provocative , quite deliberately making it a clash of wills , but still smiling as he told me to get the bags into the Toyota . |
| 21 | As he told me he did not possess the book and had lost sight of the paper , I hurried to London , located it at the National Central Library , as it then was , copied out the essay in longhand ( being fed with sheet after sheet of paper by the rather puzzled girl at the reception-desk ) , and called with it at Faber 's . |
| 22 | He seems to have pleased certain customers ; he was once , as he told me , presented over the grille with some game , which , before accepting , he was naturally obliged to take to the manager 's office . |
| 23 | As he told me that he had killed perhaps ten , eleven or twelve people during the course of the war . |