Example sentences of "told me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholas Blake , the poet C. Day Lewis , once told me with remembered acute dismay how that had happened to him . |
| 2 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 3 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 4 | A skinny Danish girl , who was washing her clothes in a bucket of pondwater , told me with aristocratic scorn about arriviste wastrels on the next beach who were squandering 90 pence a night on their rooms . |
| 5 | At Dillons , assistant manager Graham Wilson told me with quiet confidence that ‘ at customer service we are good ’ . |
| 6 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 7 | I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome . |
| 8 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |
| 9 | ‘ Robert told me in quiet tones and averted eyes how he climbed the stairs behind the prostitute in this house where she conducted her trade . |