Example sentences of "he told us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 2 | Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule . |
| 3 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 4 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 5 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 6 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 7 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 8 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 9 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 10 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 11 | He told us about Lisa . |
| 12 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 13 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 14 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 15 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |