Example sentences of "told [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 2 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 3 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 4 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 5 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 6 | ‘ We also told them that failure to act would help swell the ranks of paramilitary organisations . |
| 7 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 8 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 10 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 11 | It gave the clients confidence in my abilities , and also told them any hopes they may have had of getting away with a fifty dollar fee should be left with the receptionist . |
| 12 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 13 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 14 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 15 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 16 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 17 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 18 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 19 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 20 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 21 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 22 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 23 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 24 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 25 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 26 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 27 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 28 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 29 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 30 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |