Example sentences of "[pron] told [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 2 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 3 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 4 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 5 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 6 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 8 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 9 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 10 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 11 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 12 | One day Tom came to see me and poured out a story which told me the other side of his ambitious , over-achieving self . |
| 13 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 14 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 15 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 16 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 17 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 18 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 19 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 20 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 21 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 22 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 23 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 24 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 25 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 26 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 27 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 28 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 29 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 30 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |