Example sentences of "[noun] told [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 2 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 3 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 4 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 5 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 6 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 7 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 9 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 10 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 11 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 12 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 13 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 14 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 15 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 16 | ‘ A reporter told me the only dames he knew weighed 16 stones at least , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 18 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 19 | You see a woman see a woman and your man did n't know where he was , and then she walked out one night and put her hand through the window and she ripped it from there to there and she said the doctors told her the only thing that stopped her the arm from coming off was the bone . |
| 20 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 21 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 22 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 23 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 24 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 25 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 26 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 27 | The Minister told me the other week that compulsory competitive tendering can produce savings of 8 per cent . |
| 28 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 29 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 30 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |