Example sentences of "[coord] he tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I got talking to one of them and he told me he 'd just come out of prison where he 'd done time for soliciting . |
| 2 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 3 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 4 | I had to go to the doctor in the end and he told me I was suffering from malnutrition . |
| 5 | ‘ And he told me he did for Mr Bishop . |
| 6 | We chose retinoic acid because I met a friend , at a meeting , and he told me that it affected cell communication . |
| 7 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 8 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
| 9 | In fact , he was on the same traffic spot as myself and he told me , ‘ They 're after me . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 11 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 12 | His habit of electioneering from a white Rolls Royce sometimes attracted comment and he told me he had a silver-tipped cane with which to tap at doors of council flats in Fulham , though I was never sure whether to believe him . |
| 13 | ‘ But Bill knew you existed , ’ she said , ‘ and he told me he did n't recognize you face to face . ’ |
| 14 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 15 | I had a lesson with him and he told me that if I squeezed my knees together I would slow down my bottom half and be able to release the club as hard as I wanted to . |
| 16 | He 's an American guitarist from Washington and he told me he thinks he has your ES295 . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew John Schlesinger very well and he told me Dustin could play almost anything . ’ |
| 18 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 19 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 21 | ‘ I accused him of that , ’ I said , proud of having anticipated Ellen 's diagnosis , ‘ and he told me he 'd rather lose the election than lose his children . ’ |
| 22 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 23 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I 've talked with one of dad 's friends , and he told me he thought the stories were accurate . ’ |
| 25 | But Lindner said yesterday : ‘ I talked to Doug Laughton this afternoon and he told me a two-year contract was in the mail and everything was fine . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I did put my arm around his shoulders at the end and he told me he did not mean anything malicious . |
| 27 | I spoke to Peter Chapple-Hyam this morning and he told me he had n't decided what to do . |
| 28 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 29 | Shocked granny Vera said last night : ‘ I was washing up cups at the time and he told me he did n't agree with what I was doing . |
| 30 | All the time , I was shouting at him saying he was telling lies , I was trying to give him signs that I did n't mean it , and he told me he saw that . ’ |