Example sentences of "told us [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SERAFIN : You are not happy about the way we are proceeding , you told us a moment ago … |
| 2 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |
| 3 | Your father , Dermot told us a lot of course — I 'm sure your mother would have been none too pleased , if she knew , but his first loyalty was always to the cause . |
| 4 | This told us a lot about Parvin 's ability to predict outcomes , to make and express judgements and to engage with a task , as well as her knowledge of concepts of size and measuring . |
| 5 | And you can always tell reflectors in training , cos sometimes you 'll think what 's happening , nobody else wants participation , reflectors will actually stand back and think well what did they ask for , what do I talk about then and it 's always like a delayed response you get a lot of reflectors and we had one course once and we had all high reflector scores and that actually told us a lot about participation cos people were n't disguising any they were thinking about it coming in had time to consider an opinion so that 's a reflector . |
| 6 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |
| 7 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 8 | Diggs came and told us the day he broke out . ’ |
| 9 | He told us the story of the lapuna tree , the mother of the forest . |
| 10 | Chris told us the story or how the man and the woman fed from this tree and , when they were away , to get at the food others chopped it down and the trunk became the Amazon , the branches its tributaries . |
| 11 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 12 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 13 | The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed . |
| 14 | But his agent , Mr Tony Gordon , told us the visit was n't off — it had just been postponed . |
| 15 | Our Mosquito squadron had gone out to bomb one of the usual targets in western France and when they began to come back , the first crew to come into the Met Office told us the news , |
| 16 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |