Example sentences of "told [pron] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | Helen 's told me so much about the place . |
| 3 | Anna-Marie 's told me so much about it . |
| 4 | You 've told me so several times , ’ she said with a flash of her old spirit . |
| 5 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe I 've told you how much pleasure your writing gives me . ’ |
| 7 | In fact I expect he 'll be mad I 've told you that much . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've told you too much already . ’ |
| 9 | If you 've told him as much as the time , you 're out ! ’ |
| 10 | Erm that was er Steve from the Youth Centre because we 've just er told him how much it 's going to cost him to use the school premises next year , and he 's thrown a dickey fit . |
| 11 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 12 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 13 | The Doctor had told her that many times . |
| 14 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 15 | ‘ No one has told us how this will work , ’ he said . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ We know very little , the police have told us very little . |
| 17 | Nevil has told us so much about you , ’ Mrs Sanderson said as she shook her hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Crilly 's told us so much about you , ’ she says . |