Example sentences of "told it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Told it rather well , I thought . |
| 2 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 3 | Passionately , he told it he still believed that , like a human soul , its essential persona would continue to exist after its hardware was destroyed , because this reality was only one of many possible eigen states . |
| 4 | ’ She told it to them much as I 'd told her myself . |
| 5 | Told it to please themselves . |
| 6 | Osterlind himself told it this way . |
| 7 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 8 | The man who told it , an old groom on the estate , was a traditional storyteller . |
| 9 | A story which I heard from Dad about his days at Charlton-All-Saints brought a chuckle from him as he told it but , at the time , the occasion must have been almost tragic . |
| 10 | ‘ Then ask them to repeat it back to you just as you told it . |
| 11 | He told it to stop , and it did n't . |
| 12 | Miss Jarman 's rasping voice cut through Jess 's picture of herself as a fairground tumbler and she repeated her story in a flat monotone , conscious of a depressing conviction that the more often she told it , the more tangled she was becoming in this battle that was all about other people 's money and injured pride . |
| 13 | I 've also had the wiring checked numerous times and told it was fine . |
| 14 | ‘ One man wrote or told it in a book ( the Bible ) , another in a picture . ’ |
| 15 | In particular , it wanted to make sure that auditors told it promptly of any concerns they might have about a banking client . |
| 16 | So Benny told it , feeling slightly disloyal . |
| 17 | This is how Lee Marvin told it to me : |
| 18 | I told it not , My wrath did grow . |
| 19 | What might Jesus have meant by the Parable of the Sower when he first told it ? |
| 20 | So it was a short story as he told it to himself , of an English runaway crossing the frontier from Kuwait , and failing in spite of many beatings to satisfy his interrogators until the arrival of the Colonel at the Public Security base at Basra . |
| 21 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 22 | I only ever half-believed her , but she always told it with conviction . |
| 23 | On the eve of the anniversaries , Jiang Zemin told it to work harder to play its role of ‘ pillar of the proletarian dictatorship … |
| 24 | ‘ I hate you , ’ she told it , tipping it back to make her talk . |
| 25 | The way he told it , you were a hell of a man . ’ |
| 26 | let me ask you one final question and its a cheeky one and er , I want to know whether you drink and drive , I 'm not going to , we have n't got any time for debate , I 'm just interested to know would you say that you drink and drive ? , this is not policy any more , button one for yes , button two for no , your told it as a simply for a , a kind of statistical er oh , er some of you are being rather coy and not voting |
| 27 | I told it the way it felt , not as it actually was . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've not finished with you yet , ’ Sheldukher told it . |
| 29 | Jacob nudged Judith ; this was one of his grandfather 's chestnuts — he told it at least once a year , unfailingly on his birthday . |
| 30 | I have n't seen it yet , but I am told it 's quite spectacular . |