Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] tell me " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned and told me about your visit this afternoon ; however , I shall reserve the right to be sceptical a while longer . |
| 2 | ‘ The warder came and told me to dress and led me to an officer of the court , ’ the small , self-effacing lawyer recalled in an interview on Saturday . |
| 3 | Came and told me — no cheating . |
| 4 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 5 | Bénezet overheard Prior Robert and Brother Jerome talking about it , and he came and told me . |
| 6 | Davide is against him , he came and told me afterwards to be careful . |
| 7 | A m A man named Harold from , and while I was in that hospital with that bit of a gas shell , he er he g fellow came and told me there , to Boulogne that he was dead , killed . |
| 8 | It was after this debacle that a number of Conservatives came and told me that I ought to consider coming forward as a leader of the Party and a potential Prime Minister . |
| 9 | I said he came and told me you know |
| 10 | Then , suddenly , he relented and told me that my proposed interview with you was recorded in your desk diary , but that it had been overlooked . ’ |
| 11 | The Gendarme nodded and told me to wait outside . |
| 12 | Barium was forced down her with only minimal explanation , and when I protested the radiologist swore and told me to ‘ mind my place ’ while the assisting radiographer quickly looked away . |
| 13 | He laughed and told me she lived in the cabana . |
| 14 | He just laughed and told me that his old one was well good enough for whenever the time came for me to take over . |
| 15 | However , a friendly priest emerged and told me that the whole church had been built , in an old-fashioned style , in 1935 . |
| 16 | At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday . |
| 17 | You wrote and told me to ring — presumably you were too mean to ring me — but you had n't given me the number . |
| 18 | Some months later , after his treatment had ended , he wrote and told me that , during his summer holiday , his curiosity had led him to visit Bristol and its surroundings — and he had had the somewhat strange experience of finding his former name on a Parish Register in the district of Yate . |
| 19 | ‘ The reaction from my clients and business contacts was tremendous — perhaps some of them wish they had done the same — and one senior partner from the Big Six wrote and told me that his mother had been a great friend of Lady Reading , the WRVS 's founder , and that until he was 15 he thought all women dressed in green ! ’ |
| 20 | He wrote and told me it was on the cards . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Jenny wrote and told me about it . |
| 22 | ‘ Alice wrote and told me she 'd seen you . ’ |
| 23 | His wife Betty was n't taken by the cake at all ; she wrote and told me that she did n't find the flavour to her taste . |
| 24 | Erm Howard was Howard wrote and told me that erm he could n't get a he did n't think he would be able to so he wrote and told them early |
| 25 | She grimaced and told me about the school playground and how her clothes were wrong . |