Example sentences of "he [adv] told [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 2 | He knew that , if he ever told Creed the story of the radios , Creed would understand . |
| 3 | He still told jokes , but they were the jokes of a man who could n't see anything funny any more , the jokes of a man with one eye on the door . |
| 4 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |
| 5 | ‘ Leavis demands moral earnestness : I prefer morality , ’ he once told Kingsley Amis in a characteristically Johnsonian antithesis , adding that he would sooner live among people who did not cheat at cards than among the sort who are earnest about not cheating . |
| 6 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 7 | He says he once told Peter he had ‘ the ignorance of his brother without the excuse of his genius ’ . |
| 8 | He once told NME , ‘ I 've smoked so much pot , I 'm surprised I have n't turned into a bush ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't lose a club , the way you can an umbrella , ’ he once told Agnes . |
| 10 | ‘ We working artists suffer from them ’ , he once told Epstein . |
| 11 | He has confided that he once told Claudia that in real life people do not go around analysing everyday rituals . |
| 12 | His belief that it was fusion was due primarily to the heat , but he also told Bullough that since October there was some evidence in Utah that neutrons were being produced too . |
| 13 | He also told Miss Slater , then 25 , that he had set up an electrical circuit to the box and if she moved she would be electrocuted . |
| 14 | He also told O'Boyle that he had been ‘ checked out ’ with the government computer system to see if he was reputable enough to join the group . |
| 15 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 16 | He also told reporters : ‘ It was completed on time and is a first class facility , designed and engineered to the very highest standards . |
| 17 | He also told reporters he expected Syria , Jordan and Lebanon — the Arab countries talking peace with Israel in Washington — to sign other agreements with the Jewish state simultaneously within days . |
| 18 | ‘ If he does have a friend in the Circle , he probably told Vera before he left that he would be spending the nights here . |
| 19 | He repeatedly told students ‘ Painting is made out of a love for the subject . ’ |
| 20 | As he later told Charles Wintour and Robert Carvel of the Evening Standard ‘ I find this [ the machinery of government ] of extraordinary interest . ’ |
| 21 | He later told police the clash had been accidental . |
| 22 | He later told police : ‘ No-one ever calls me Mr ’ . |
| 23 | He later told police : ‘ No-one ever calls me Mr ’ . |
| 24 | He later told police that she was ‘ like a grandma to me ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ My Agitations were delirium , ’ he later told George : |
| 26 | He often told Lennie to stay away from Curley and his wife . |
| 27 | Things , he often told Stella , were n't the same , and neither was he . |
| 28 | ‘ There 's no recovery , ’ he sombrely told journalists in Bristol on Friday , ‘ and I think people are getting tired of the Chancellor for saying it . |
| 29 | He eventually sold the properties for £5 million — half of what he originally told shareholders he expected to get for them . |
| 30 | He even told Eleanor her age and name to add credibility . |