Example sentences of "[pron] told me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , someone told me about some fires in the new forest here in Africa ; but Gog does n't want to hear about those fires . ’ |
| 2 | Nobody told me about that ! |
| 3 | ‘ Nobody told me about this . |
| 4 | It was Dr Jaffery who told me about two contemporary travel books which rescued the Mughals from being suffocated beneath landslides of silk , diamonds and lapis lazuli — Bernier 's Travels in the Mogul Empire and Manucci 's Mogul India . |
| 5 | ‘ I was told , ’ said Lili , ‘ by the person who told me about this place . ’ |
| 6 | What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth . |
| 7 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 8 | You told me about that , yeah . |
| 9 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 10 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 11 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 12 | And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him . |
| 13 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 14 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 15 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 16 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 17 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 18 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 19 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 20 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 21 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 22 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |