Example sentences of "told me [adj] [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 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
| 4 | Yeah , you told me that story |
| 5 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 6 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 7 | Nobody told me that bit . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 9 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 10 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |
| 11 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 12 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 14 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
| 15 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
| 16 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 17 | ‘ When I was still involved with Vernons , we participated in the introduction of the lotteries in both New York and Sydney , and our experience then told me that football pools would be swept away should lotteries ever come to Britain . |
| 18 | Drummond once told me that Radio 3 broadcasts to about 30 minority tastes , each of which is characterised by its intense dislike of the other 29 . |
| 19 | One of the numerous girls in the film , Catherine Schell , told me that Lazenby was never difficult or temperamental . |
| 20 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 21 | ‘ She told me certain things which happened when you were very small . ’ |
| 22 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 23 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 26 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 27 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 28 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
| 29 | You told me next Wednesday next Tuesday . |
| 30 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |