Example sentences of "told [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her teacher was white — indeed , all the teachers were white — and told them with great pride that she came from England . |
| 2 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 3 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 4 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 9 | Told him with great enthusiasm . |
| 10 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 13 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 14 | ‘ The king my father learned of my regard for yourself from Sir Thomas Vaughan who saw it as his duty to inform him , ’ Edward told her with notable reluctance . |
| 15 | ‘ Mind you do n't neglect him , ’ Ratagan told her with mock severity . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |