Example sentences of "[pron] told [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 2 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 3 | Remember the firemen who told of the charred and blackened bodies of children they had to bring from the smoking ruins of homes ? |
| 4 | But this was dear old Mr Rabinowitz himself , spruced up , a new suit , who told in a quavering voice how this perfect stranger had come to his aid after the Blackshirts had smashed open his tailor 's shop . |
| 5 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 6 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 7 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 8 | He could also be excellent company , with a fund of stories that he told with an exquisite sense of timing , though such good moments were rare for he preferred to brood savagely over life 's injustices ; the chief of which was the inexplicable existence of Roman Catholics . |
| 9 | Some of this history was at a very high level of genealogy : it told of the matrimonial history of Hasan bin Nib and his wives and their marriages ; or of the relations and deeds of his sons . |