Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , I do n't know a lot about this sort of thing , but surely it would go in your favour if you went to the police and told them everything of your own accord without waiting for them to … to … ? ’ |
| 2 | Their main source of information was meter reading , which , of course , told them nothing about what purposes domestic electricity was used for , and , more importantly for their costs , about what times of day it was used . |
| 3 | Now , I 'd mentioned Benjamin to the Ralembergs but told them nothing about his near kinsman , the great cardinal . |
| 4 | Peter and Jay finished ‘ Some Enchanted Evening ’ and he told them which of his repertoire he would sing . |
| 5 | Hawkins said : ‘ Van Gelder told me nothing of this . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Maurice told me nothing of it , you know . |
| 7 | Francis told me nothing of his intentions so I can only guess . ’ |
| 8 | On the train as we rode past the spines of Manhattan to the flat rooftops of Brooklyn , he told me something of his travels in north America , indeed , he had been much further west than Jersey City , even beyond Chicago . |
| 9 | After asking how I was getting on he told me something of the worries of a Party leader in days when there are no deep political convictions to divide men of good will . |
| 10 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 11 | I never knew Griffith himself but Sir Ben Lockspeiser , who acted as Griffith 's assistant at this time , told me something about the circumstances under which the work was done . |
| 12 | ‘ The pathologist who did the autopsy on the body of the man told me something about the effects of nerve gases . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's dated July 15th — just over a year ago — and he writes : ‘ Today father told me something about himself which I can scarcely believe . |
| 14 | Did Susan , Susan told me something about it , what did Susan say to you ? |
| 15 | Oh Duane told me something about Nick or Nicky . |
| 16 | Somebody told me something like he was ‘ of the City ’ but not ‘ in it ’ . |
| 17 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 18 | George Roman read me and after I 'd done the first reading he asked me about my own attitudes to the Part and then told me his as a director , which were completely different . |
| 19 | He never told me anything about his mother painting in all our married life . |
| 20 | They told you everything about the company , what their plans were , how much they earned and so you felt part of the team . |
| 21 | ‘ And Mrs McDougall told you something about him that changed your minds ? ’ |
| 22 | It told you something about the standard of the England game when coverage of the Wales game continued until the end , even though we scored 3 more in that time . |
| 23 | No I do n't know what it was but Catherine was t telling me the other day about how erm oh I told you something about that and you t and you t were talking to her about it . |
| 24 | And she likes her very much and erm I told you she by chance . |
| 25 | But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist . |
| 26 | But she asked no questions about his past life and told him nothing about hers . |
| 27 | Well somebody told him something about Texas . |
| 28 | He told him which of his fellow owners were open to a spot of friendly blackmail . |
| 29 | Over dinner at the Cafe Royal , she sat next to Guy and told him everything about herself from her birth in Whitechapel through to winning a place at Bedford College the previous year . |
| 30 | but erm he described a , my mum told her everything about a fall the bump on her head , he knew |