Example sentences of "[adv] told [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 2 | ‘ I just told them about the bullet damage to the boat and about the chart . ’ |
| 3 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 4 | But I did n't tell her everything at first , I just told her about the first two instances . |
| 5 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 6 | I also told him about the new hip and thigh diet and said I could do with some more volunteers to try it out . |
| 7 | I also told them about the financial statement we had issued and afterwards received a letter asking if I would send on a financial statement , which I did " . |
| 8 | He also told us about the work of the Institute , which teaches Chinese to a large number of overseas students from numerous different countries . |
| 9 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 10 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 11 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 12 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 13 | Holmes then told him about the death of Sir Charles . |
| 14 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 15 | I then told them about the apparition , how I had seen someone walking down the shed and then suddenly disappearing . |
| 16 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 17 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 18 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 19 | Strange , I never told him about the horrors of Maubisson . ) |
| 20 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 21 | You never even , you never told me about the one |
| 22 | ‘ Who knows about this ? ’ he asked when Kelly haltingly told him of the latest threat to her . |