Example sentences of "told me [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several Members told me that most still speak in much the same way as they did before the cameras were introduced , and that is certainly my own impression when I watch them on television . |
| 2 | I thought I was the only one to satisfy you ; you told me that once ; you said I was the only one who had ever made you — ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You told me that before . |
| 4 | told me that yesterday . |
| 5 | Nour told me that too . |
| 6 | I wonder why she told me that then ? |
| 7 | My mum always tells me I 'm the most beautiful woman in the world ; she told me this even when I had chickenpox ! ’ |
| 8 | Aunt Kit told me this rather aggressively , so I think the implacably moral — and romantic — decision was almost certainly hers : she has the nature for high-minded renunciations , grand gestures , and had , at this time , already taken to drink . |
| 9 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 10 | ( Otto once told me some unbelievably shocking — to me — tales about Jean-Claude and American soldiers , and how they paid him in cigarettes and chewing-gum . |
| 11 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |