Example sentences of "[verb] told [pron] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevil has told us so much about you , ’ Mrs Sanderson said as she shook her hand . |
| 2 | Mr. Bonanza had told me earlier that day of his intention to get the girl away that night , but unfortunately he had a stomach disorder which caused him to postpone the trip twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | The Doctor had told her that many times . |
| 4 | Harry had told her very little about his discussion with Sir Gregory : all she knew was that Tristram had been caught trespassing and that Jennifer had been caught going to meet him ; but although each had sworn that nothing untoward had happened , and their reserve and good behaviour seemed to confirm their innocence , Ann could not forget the scandal they had caused ten years before , nor could she believe that Tristram would have scaled the Roscarrock wall simply to sit with his cousin and talk . |
| 5 | Leeson , by nature taciturn , had told her very little about the original photograph and nothing at all about the research he and the Bristol archivist had done on it . |
| 6 | If you 've told him as much as the time , you 're out ! ’ |
| 7 | You 've told me so several times , ’ she said with a flash of her old spirit . |
| 8 | In fact I expect he 'll be mad I 've told you that much . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've told you too much already . ’ |
| 10 | Helen 's told me so much about the place . |
| 11 | Anna-Marie 's told me so much about it . |
| 12 | ‘ Crilly 's told us so much about you , ’ she says . |
| 13 | However , they have told me recently that , when I was about nine or ten , they thought me a bully because I would surreptitiously pinch them or pull their hair in order to keep them in line — that is , in order to make them behave as my parents would have wished them to . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ We know very little , the police have told us very little . |