Example sentences of "told me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Master Peachey has told me of the succession and how important it is to unite nations through contracts of marriage . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Ah yes , ’ Leon turned to Mrs Yaxlee , ‘ your George has told me of the great days . |
| 3 | Mrs Peterson and the others have told me of the delicacies baked and brought with love , from kitchens in Comely Bank , Trinity , the Inch and other even further-flung parts of the City . |
| 4 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 5 | Needless to say , no one had ever told me about the pain , and I became convinced that something was wrong with me , but I was too embarrassed to confess as much to anyone . |
| 6 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 7 | There were a few nasty expletives in the air and the thought that , if they had n't told me about the dyke , what might I encounter later on ? |
| 8 | Someone should have told me about the local MIND and the National Schizophrenia Fellowship and what they could offer . |
| 9 | And , in view of what you 've told me about the computer and knocking off all those agents , this whole thing is a lot bigger than just guarding Trimmler . |
| 10 | They have told me about the effect that price cuts can have on the dairy sector . |
| 11 | A person who is prepared to be named — I shall give the information if called to do so — has told me about the discrimination on training in a trust hospital in Leeds . |
| 12 | but he 'd just told me about the housing with the car and everything . |
| 13 | Because I believe , that only through him , what he 's told me about the club , that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I really am doing . |
| 14 | They are like , and I 've come here to maybe to help get them in a , a better position , because I believe that , only through him , what he 's told me about the club ; that it 's a nice club , a nice base for me to start off my career , because that 's what I 'm really am doing . |
| 15 | He had already told me on the Friday at the training session , and in front of about 20 of the lads , that I was n't in the team . |
| 16 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 17 | People have told me on the phone that I sound cos I 've got a deep voice I |
| 18 | ‘ You should have told me at the time ! ’ |
| 19 | She loved to play like that , but she 'd have told me in the end , exploding with laughter at my angry duped expression . |
| 20 | ‘ I represent about 12 players at Tottenham Hotspur , and they 've all told me in the last couple of days that they certainly will put in for transfers and leave Tottenham Hotspur . ’ |
| 21 | Now er the Buckingham manager , Phil Lines was manager of Brackley and er apparently , as you 've told me in the past , he guided them to their best ever season . |