Example sentences of "told me [det] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The porter , who had once been a sailor , told me that of all the saloon passengers only one ever visited the men below decks and his name was Charles Rocke . |
| 2 | Indeed on the nineteenth of January the Noble Earl Lord told me that of the three hundred and sixty letters which had been received from a wide variety of organisations representing people of totally different political opinions and that following the publication of the White Paper . |
| 3 | Many other women I spoke to told me that for protection from racial attacks it was essential to have Asian neighbours . |
| 4 | You also told me that for eleven years you were national coach and team manager to the United Arab Emirates . |
| 5 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 6 | He also told me that for some years , two unknown people , evidently strategically placed in big City offices , have been collecting for us all the first-day covers received there . |
| 7 | He told me that with chicken pox I should n't be with the team , and he kept making remarks which made me feel embarrassed . |
| 8 | But she yes , she told me that in all , in the shop . |
| 9 | The second time , I mean , when you told me all about everything . ’ |
| 10 | He told me all about it . |
| 11 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 12 | As I was recovering , Hannah , the housekeeper , came to sit with me , and told me all about the family . |
| 13 | ‘ Aubrey told me all about it when you went off to America . |
| 14 | He told me all about it . |
| 15 | I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back . |
| 16 | In fact when I er er periods started it was them that told me all about it not me mother and did n't never think then about st er sex or anything , not a thing , I was as innocent as day was born when I was eighteen . |
| 17 | He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it . |
| 18 | ‘ Maureen does n't know I 'm here , ’ said Joe , ‘ but she told me all about you . |
| 19 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 20 | She told me all about you and Gittel , and how you called down the curse on Gittel 's female line . |
| 21 | ‘ My dad told me all about the strings and stuff . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Maria Luisa told me all about it . |
| 23 | My doctor told me all about the pill before he prescribed it . |
| 24 | ‘ Tommy told me all about you , said you were probably the best lay in the platoon . ’ |
| 25 | then she said yeah he told me all about it , she said he had n't registered . |
| 26 | ‘ The Professor came to see me yesterday evening , and told me all of it . |
| 27 | She told me this with her lips , not her voice . |
| 28 | Charlotte told me this in a letter she sent from Scarborough , a town by the sea on the north-east coast . |
| 29 | She told me some of her story then . |
| 30 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |