Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 2 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 3 | ‘ I told them to stop competing . |
| 4 | before they went back , and er , I ca n't remember whether I told them to get one or whether they should be up for Easter . |
| 5 | Kenneth Baker put the Party faithful under starter 's orders for the next general election ; he told them to get ready for a fight , and then told them why they would win . |
| 6 | An illuminated indicator told them to stand clear of the doors and then they closed . |
| 7 | He draws together from the Bible four strands in divine guidance which , taken together , pro-vide a confident basis for action , and avoid excessive recourse to that overworked claim , ‘ The Lord told me to do such and such . ’ |
| 8 | I could hear myself groaning like an old pig ! and the doctor told me to use all that energy I was expending on the noise to push with ! |
| 9 | Nell was sitting at a table with a fortyish couple who she later told me owned one of the horses in the box-car , a dark bay called Redi-Hot . |
| 10 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 11 | My eldest brother told me to keep still . |
| 12 | So he told me to keep clear of them . |
| 13 | The health worker told me to keep quiet about it . |
| 14 | Joy told me to find some sort of a lining , and off they went . |
| 15 | A key change was to ‘ remove that part which the Bar told me implied undue interference by the Lord Chancellor , as a minister of the Crown , with the processes of justice . |
| 16 | my mum told me to wipe some of it , some of it off cos I could n't her shout , I , I , I caught her shouting at my sister , she got really angry with my sister |
| 17 | he told me to get lost |
| 18 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 19 | Terry said yesterday : ‘ The doctor told me to get some fresh air , so I thought I 'd take the dog for a walk . |
| 20 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 21 | I told you to put some orange in there . |
| 22 | ‘ I thought I told you to stop worrying . ’ |
| 23 | Say I told you to ask that . ’ |
| 24 | I thought I told you to keep clear of the funnies , for Christ 's sake ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But somebody told you to think that ? ’ |
| 26 | Well I said it , told you to get some just to put them in the garage when it 's hot . |
| 27 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 28 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 29 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 30 | I told him to get lost . ’ |