Example sentences of "told [pron] [adv] to do " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , from the moment they can talk , they should be encouraged to explain why they have done something you told them not to do and given time to do so , especially when they are still clumsy or slow with words . |
| 2 | Saying this to me was like holding a red rag to a bull : the more anyone told me not to do a thing , the more I tried to do it . |
| 3 | and Richard goes no Rebecca just told me not to do it , so you should n't |
| 4 | Who told me not to do it , put salt into the water then ? |
| 5 | It was my dreaming son who told me how to do this . |
| 6 | The German Friends of the Earth 's people told me never to do the washing on Monday mornings . |
| 7 | She told me once to do some lines and I goes , ‘ It 's not worth you telling me to do them , because I wo n't do them ’ , and she goes , ‘ Well , I think you should do them ’ , and I goes , ‘ Well , I 'm not going to , so I do n't know what you 'll have to do with me ’ . |
| 8 | Jacqui , I told you not to do that . ’ |
| 9 | She told herself not to do it , to turn away from him , to get out of the house . |
| 10 | He told him not to do that , he said just pay when you got some and |
| 11 | Told him not to do the garden until I 've finished . |
| 12 | Soon as the royal visitor had gone , he called us in and told us never to do such a thing again . |
| 13 | Son told us how to do it once , so he got the book out and he said , oh , then he gave up in the end ! |