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 | ‘ She told me certain things which happened when you were very small . ’ |
| 6 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 7 | ‘ Humber told me Red Leland thinks he 'll make it . ’ |
| 8 | As I told my faithful readers last week , this particular old gent was transported by an extremely uncomfortable magic carpet ( B.A. steerage , Apex ticket , with all the delights of plastic food and stewardesses trained by the Obergrüppenführer at Heathrow ) to Chiantishire , that old-established suburb of Wimbledon , which ca n't have changed much since Britannia ruled the waves and wogs stopped at Calais . |
| 9 | Is it not a fact that on 3 July last year the Minister of State told my hon. Friend the Member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) that the recruitment figures for individual battalions in Scotland would not be released on the ground of security , yet when it suited the Secretary of State 's purpose , he was prepared to release figures showing 67 per cent . |
| 10 | As I told my hon. Friend the Member for Batley and Spen ( Mrs. Peacock ) , we do not need to raise taxes ; the Labour party does . |
| 11 | ‘ I told my old lady I 'd be home , ’ McQuaid lied as he rose . |
| 12 | ‘ Mildred Hubble told my little sister this story about first-years being changed into frogs by the teachers . |
| 13 | She told my American colleague the book is fine and he agrees . |
| 14 | When I told my big brother about the whole thing , he said I was bloody stupid ; I only had myself to blame . |
| 15 | They told my social worker and he told my dad . |
| 16 | Phyllis Bowman , national director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , told its annual conference at Keele that a dual attack on abortion and embryo experimentation will be launched in the autumn when the Government announces its Bill on embryo research . |
| 17 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 18 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 19 | He did the same with my patient of yesterday whose glaring eyes and cold extremities told their grim tale . |
| 20 | She apparently told her sometime lover , Marlon Brando , ‘ I do n't know if I do it right ’ and Norman Mailer , another to enjoy her favours , was quoted as saying that the screen goddess was ‘ pleasant in bed , but receptive rather than innovative ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , I have reason to believe that she told her young man I was a history teacher in a modest direct grant school . |
| 22 | Deborah told her new boss what she believed the company needed : ‘ Principally the clothes were an insult to the country girls they were trying to portray … they were n't suitable for country wear but they were selling very cheaply to secretaries in towns . |
| 23 | At four o'clock , she told her new secretary that she was going home . |
| 24 | ‘ I was getting bored with being idle , ’ she told her new employer . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher told her fellow summiteers that , in the end , it might be quicker and more secure if they worked with market forces in moving towards monetary union . |
| 26 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 27 | Yesterday it was also disclosed that glamorous Suzannah Dwyer told her devastated husband of her romance 24 hours before Bates went public with the news at a press conference . |
| 28 | Another survivor , who was brought up in Leith , where she went to Bell 's School , owed her introduction to printing to a neighbour " a Miss Taylor " , who told her widowed mother that young Jenny would be " just suited " to the printing trade , and herself took her up for interview . |
| 29 | I do n't know what line Peter gave you , but if he told you far-fetched stories about his inheritance he omitted one thing . |
| 30 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |