Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 2 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 3 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 4 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 5 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 6 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 7 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 8 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 9 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
| 10 | The Muslim Palestinian defenders of Beaufort were ignorant of all this , sitting around the walls in silence when I told them of this historical the old tale of fear , treachery and pain . |
| 11 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 12 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 13 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 14 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 15 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 16 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |
| 17 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 18 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 19 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 20 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 21 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 22 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 23 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 24 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 25 | At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ . |
| 26 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 27 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 28 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 29 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 30 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |