Example sentences of "[noun] told [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My history books told me about those wicked aristocrats of the nineteenth century , they used their position as landlords to force their tenants to , to vote in a certain way , to force their tenants in other words to take up a particular position on a matter of controversy . |
| 2 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 3 | ‘ Edward told you about that ? ’ |
| 4 | And he said , oh yes , he said , Roger told me about that , he said , I did n't even know we were getting that . |
| 5 | It was just that i it was almost in passing he said , well yeah Roger told me about that . |
| 6 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 7 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 8 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 9 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 10 | ‘ Your wife told you about this ? ’ |
| 11 | Joanne told me about that you |
| 12 | ‘ Martha told me about this place , but I never thought I 'd see it , ’ he said . |
| 13 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 14 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 15 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 16 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 17 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 18 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , he sees me , ’ Belinda told her with some spirit . |
| 20 | Much of what Patsy told her on that important morning , must have been therapeutic to Patsy , baffling to Shanti , and much of it unknown to me . |
| 21 | Life can take many strange twists , ’ Jonas told her in all seriousness , then softened the whole with a laugh . |
| 22 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 23 | Emma told you about that . ’ |