Example sentences of "told [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 2 | Paul doubted it , and his fears were confirmed when the assistant told them the price . |
| 3 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 4 | ‘ We told them the money would go to other children who do n't have any toys and , worse than that , do n't have any food or anywhere to live . ’ |
| 5 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 6 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 7 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 8 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 9 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 10 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 11 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
| 12 | who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles |
| 13 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 14 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 15 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 16 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 17 | When she decided , with the rest of the children , to go to Waco Monday and they told me the Sunday . |
| 18 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 19 | While I was there Sean told me the knife he used to slice the lemons with was stolen last Friday ! ’ |
| 20 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 21 | ‘ Someone told me the hedge is centuries old . |
| 22 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 23 | Ian Hay told me the lady 's last wish had been that the Colonel should scatter her ashes in the headwaters of the River Laxford : ‘ But , you see , his new young wife was not the sort of lady to enjoy much walking and the poor Colonel just did n't know how he was going to get the job done . |
| 24 | It told me the figures in east London . |
| 25 | ‘ They told me the regulators would n't allow it and that Glasgow housewives would n't be able to do it ’ , he recalls with a smile . |
| 26 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 27 | One of them told me the changes they 've put now are so dramatic , there might as well have been a change of government . |
| 28 | Told me the kid 's name was Henry Stych . |
| 29 | When I came out , they told me the court dates of when he was going to be adopted . |
| 30 | He told me the story again as we sat in the campsite in Skaftafell . |