Example sentences of "told she the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 2 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 3 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 4 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 5 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 6 | Annunziata , who had accepted the hug , made Julia get back into bed and then told her the whole story . |
| 7 | Then Tess went up to her mother , put her head on Joan 's shoulder , and told her the whole story . |
| 8 | I got to , Benguiat 's girlfriend and told her the whole story and told her to explain to Benguiat and calm him down and he had like threatened to come to Parkinson 's speech and disrupt it and scream liar and things like that at him . |
| 9 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 10 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 11 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
| 12 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 13 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 14 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |