Example sentences of "[verb] told [pers pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Hurst , who works at Unilever 's environmental engineering department in Port Sunlight , Wirral , said : ‘ The family has told me that Berend is making great strides towards a full recovery . |
| 2 | I suppose Bev has told you this bit . |
| 3 | A Saga Holidays spokeswoman has told us that Saga contracted rooms with the Roman Hotel a year ago for this season . |
| 4 | ‘ I love you , ’ she told him , as she 'd told him many times before . |
| 5 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 6 | I mean if if you 'd told you that dad was coming down which |
| 7 | Who could ever have told her that love could be this good ? |
| 8 | Reason should have told me that instant acceptance was too much to ask , but I was overwhelmed by my emotional need for an endorsement , however small , of my situation . |
| 9 | ‘ It ca n't be ; I must have told you many times before this . ’ |
| 10 | I should have told you that snot comes out of your nose ? ’ |
| 11 | — He must 'ave told you all sorts of lies . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a little headache , ’ she admitted , and that was the third lie she had told him that night . |
| 13 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |
| 14 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 15 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 16 | Since Janine had told them that morning that she was pregnant , her whole world had fallen apart . |
| 17 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 18 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 19 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 20 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 21 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 22 | I 've told them that Tig is the new guardian of the threshold . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've told them many times that she no longer lives here , ’ said Mr Taylor , of Newstead Road . |
| 24 | ‘ From what you 've told me this constable knows as much as Boz about the man who attacked Anna , but he 's made no arrest yet . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So you 've told us many times , ’ said Rozanov not looking up . |
| 26 | right , that 's it , you 've , you 've told me this three times and I 've told you several times as well , the , the Russians put everything they 've got into military technology , just because , just because their kids are still running around |
| 27 | I know I 've told you this place might be run by these Chinese Triads , but I want everyone t'remember we 're dealin' mainly with kids here . |
| 28 | ‘ I have told you these things , so that in me you may have peace . |