Example sentences of "told i [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
| 3 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 5 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |