Example sentences of "[noun] told [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 2 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mildred Hubble told my little sister this story about first-years being changed into frogs by the teachers . |
| 4 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 5 | In April 1968 , the reformer Ceauşescu told his Central Committee , ‘ We do n't need any idols … |
| 6 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 7 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 8 | Jean told her best friend about the latest puzzle . |
| 9 | However , the steely look in his blue eyes told her such tactics would be ultimately pointless , and she sighed heavily . |
| 10 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 11 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 12 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
| 13 | Ben told his social workers to go away . |
| 14 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
| 15 | Pastor told him that business was more important and he threw a tantrum . |
| 16 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 17 | The contra operations had to be continued , North told his congressional questioners , ‘ for the love of God and the love of this nation ’ . |
| 18 | One adoptive parent told her adopted daughter that her first mother was just like the brown paper parcel the child came in . |
| 19 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 20 | The Phoenix Dance Company instructors told us several times that our movements were very good and at one time described them as ‘ nice . ’ |
| 21 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 22 | Then they played cards until stifled yawns and missed tricks told them that tiredness was now king . |
| 23 | The director told his new subordinates : |
| 24 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 25 | Deborah told her new boss what she believed the company needed : ‘ Principally the clothes were an insult to the country girls they were trying to portray … they were n't suitable for country wear but they were selling very cheaply to secretaries in towns . |
| 26 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 27 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 28 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 29 | Razak said afterwards that when Soviet officials told him that neutralisation was similar to collective security he replied that ‘ he appreciated this , but added that Malaysia preferred a neutrality plan which would be applicable to a smaller region such as Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 30 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |