Example sentences of "she told [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She told me Nicola was having this affair … |
| 2 | ‘ Look — before my mum died she told me Jozef Taczek had confessed to her , confessed that he 'd murdered Mills because of the betrayal . |
| 3 | As Mrs Knelle descended from the mountains , she told me stories attached to various landmarks . |
| 4 | ‘ She told me Melanie was expecting a baby soon after Christmas . ’ |
| 5 | But to continue with Clem 's letter — she told me Melanie went to Wales after you to try more persuasion . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She told me Lucasta Redburn 's dead . |
| 7 | ‘ She told me Crevecoeur showed up around 18.00 in a pretty bad way . |
| 8 | But if she told them Nina had given her the go-ahead , and Nina discovered the lie , she would be out . |
| 9 | As he snored , she told him Florence was full of jobs for the likes of him and by no means all were living-in . |
| 10 | ‘ How was your first day as Damian 's secretary ? ’ he asked weakly , but his eyes gleamed with a new reason to live , and he listened eagerly as she told him half-truths about her new job . |
| 11 | She told him word for word , adding coldly , ‘ Is that how you describe us to anyone who comments on our practice ? ’ |
| 12 | She told him Shildon 's story . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I 've had a very curious dream ! ’ said Alice , and she told her sister all about the strange adventures in her wonderful dream . |
| 14 | Then she told her sister , who came down in a taxi and I was talking to a woman who would not get off the phone . |
| 15 | She was younger and more beautiful and much more clever than any other mother , and she told her friends that Frankie had chosen the name all by himself to prove just how much he loved her . |
| 16 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 17 | ‘ They were all over me like a bad rash ’ , she told her friends . |
| 18 | ‘ It was an horrendous occasion , ’ she told her friends . |
| 19 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 20 | ‘ Ca n't make it this evening , ’ she told her friends in a phone call , ‘ I 'm clearing my desk Paperwork , dahlinks , it comes to us all . ’ |
| 21 | She told her dream to Mrs. Welch , then staying with her . |
| 22 | She told her secret . |
| 23 | ‘ You can always dress ten years younger than your age , ’ she told her customers , and she believed it . |
| 24 | Her voice squeaking with embarrassment , she told her friend what she had overheard her mother telling Louise . |
| 25 | She told her friend : ‘ I 'm there if you need me . ’ |
| 26 | As she clambered over the steep Alpine meadows with Portia , she told her friend for the first time about Thomas and how he had helped her when she had nowhere to go . |
| 27 | ‘ You look lovely tonight , ’ she told her friend . |
| 28 | She told her parents how she and Susan had bumped into the two lads from Northallerton and that they 'd all gone together to the Lobster Pot for a drink . |
| 29 | She told her parents the next day . |
| 30 | She told her parents , Brian and his wife Dolly , about the sad , sick girl , who was then in a psychiatric unit in Exeter . |