Example sentences of "she [adv] told [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philosophy is very small , as she once told a fellow-philosopher and , what is worse , ‘ counter-natural ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ There comes a time when you really have to say , ‘ Get up old girl , ’ or you run the risk of making the bed your habitat , ’ she once told a reporter . |
| 3 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 4 | She later told the police about the assault but not the rape . |
| 5 | She probably told the whole village that the doctor 's wife was always complaining to the local shopkeepers . ’ |
| 6 | She also told the court that he 'd heard he 'd threatened to blow his head off . |
| 7 | She reportedly told a friend : ‘ They assured me she was not seriously ill , they told me she was fine . ’ |
| 8 | Putting her head against his , she bravely told the whole story of her meeting with Alec d'Urberville and its results . |
| 9 | Indeed , one old lady of 94 was interviewed on television and she proudly told the presenter ‘ I can now walk faster than my daughter — and she 's only 72 ! ’ |
| 10 | Nagata earned the nickname ‘ Bloody Empress ’ in the late 1970s when she proudly told the court her occupation was a ‘ revolutionary ’ and defended her motives for killing her comrades . |
| 11 | Perhaps in penance , she then told an audience at the Johns Hopkins medical school that over-specialisation is the real villain behind high medical costs . |