Example sentences of "told me [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who told me roundabout that |
| 2 | Dr M M Muthiah , consultant physician , told me that existing good relations with social services and other disciplines should ensure a smooth transition to the new style of community care . |
| 3 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 4 | I was advised to speak initially to the region 's director of public health , who told me that geographical limitations and the pastoral duties of a vicar 's wife were not a good enough reason to train part time , and he would not support my application . |
| 5 | They told me that sexual examination is a routine part of the entry certificate procedure at British Diplomatic missions in the Indian subcontinent . |
| 6 | Tony Ruffell , chief executive of Nottinghamshire FHSA , told me that preliminary research in the county suggested that each general practitioner would encounter only a few such difficult decisions a year — perhaps five or six . |
| 7 | One , living in Newcastle on Tyne 's Salvation Army Men 's palace , told me that homeless men lost basic citizen 's rights because " laws apply to them but never for them " . |
| 8 | Inside , the elderly English upper-class proprietor told me that true Communism only survives in Albania . |
| 9 | He told me that same as you . |
| 10 | Maurice told me that last winter he had to borrow a candle from Dreadnought to unfreeze the lock of his woodstore . |
| 11 | " You told me that last month , so you did . " |
| 12 | She told me that last week ! |
| 13 | You told me all that stuff about your wife being unfaithful . |
| 14 | He told me all that very carefully . ’ |
| 15 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 16 | He told me all this in his house , in a beautiful room . |
| 17 | As we walked back , Silver told me many interesting things about the ships that we passed . |
| 18 | A fellow fanzine writer , Steve Shy from ‘ Shy Talk ’ ( such were the ridiculous pseudonyms of the era ) told me one typical Sunday … |
| 19 | I waited patiently while he told me forty different ways to get there . |
| 20 | Do n't know I would think that it 's , she told me twenty five pounds so I thought it was gon na be like cash or something and then I read the thing that says twenty five pound voucher but it did n't say what for , it just says voucher knowing my luck it 'll be book tokens ! |
| 21 | Their dad told me twenty million boxes ! |
| 22 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 23 | ‘ He told me some extraordinary facts . |
| 24 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |