Example sentences of "told [pron] about [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long John told them about Black Dog , saying , ‘ That was how it was , was n't it , Hawkins ? ’ |
| 2 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 3 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 4 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 5 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 6 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 7 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 8 | " You never told me about that old Mr Bale , Lyn , " said Mrs Newman . |
| 9 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 10 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 11 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 12 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 13 | You told me about that , yeah . |
| 14 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 15 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 16 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 17 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 18 | Abraham Ling , a farm-worker from Blaxhall , told me about 1950 , and I recorded his remarks a little later : |
| 19 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 20 | Jack Kinley told me about one case . |
| 21 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 22 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 23 | The lecturer appointed to teach the students , who was later to become the college 's special needs coordinator , once told me about those early beginnings as ‘ part of the Engineering Department , based in a hut on the field ’ . |
| 24 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 25 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 26 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 27 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 28 | He also told me about another ex-employee who 'd had a fatal motor accident … ’ |
| 29 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 30 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |