Example sentences of "[noun] told i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was very undecided when my agent told me about the offer … ’ |
| 2 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 3 | Four days after the Ralembergs told me about the Luciferi , I was in the Golden Turk carousing by myself . |
| 4 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 5 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |
| 6 | Luney told me about the party . |
| 7 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 8 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 9 | The night watchman told me about the incident in the morning . |
| 10 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 11 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 12 | My father told me about the Hound of the Baskervilles . |
| 13 | The man told me on the telly that is the best so |
| 14 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 15 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 16 | The doctor at the hospital told me about the pill , but said you have to take them regularly and if you forget even once , then you 'll get pregnant . |
| 17 | After a moment , Doyle said , ‘ Cowley told me about the girl . ’ |
| 18 | Connolly told me over the intercom to stand clear as he was about to press the button of the destructor switch for the I.F.P. gear . |
| 19 | TV told me about the victim of child molestation who claimed , ‘ I owe my analyst my life ’ . |
| 20 | I was still very pleased , however , when the statistician Ian Hodge told me at the end of the year that I had moved from being 156th in the world 100 metres ranking list in 1985 to 4th in 1986 ! |
| 21 | Brian Thomas told me in the wake of the 12–9 French win in Cardiff : ‘ Too many walkers , not enough runners ’ . |
| 22 | Allie told me on the phone that Ted fed her , coming in and saying , ' 'Ere , Marge , have a nice bit of fish with some bread and butter . ’ |
| 23 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 24 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 25 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 26 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |
| 27 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |