Example sentences of "told i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 2 | He was n't badly hurt but people have since told me that shock sometimes starts the onset of diabetes . |
| 3 | He had always told me that education was a waste of time and he could n't see the point of it . |
| 4 | Because you did not meet the deadline and you 've just told me that deadline means the day I said I wanted it . |
| 5 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 6 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 7 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 8 | Letterman had previously told me that flashback is a device which must be used sparingly , yet now he was a plausible advocate for this treatment . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 10 | she says er I 'm er guaranteed , she says oh no you 're not , she says Ruth 's told me last week to take you off guarantee , so they took her off like |
| 11 | ‘ From what you 've told me this constable knows as much as Boz about the man who attacked Anna , but he 's made no arrest yet . ’ |
| 12 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 13 | And they said , Well okay I can tell you right now you 've , how many appointments have you told me this week , this is the guy back at camp . |
| 14 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 15 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |