Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [noun] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E collapsed as 'e come out the Kings Arms an' they rushed 'im away ter the 'ospital. 'E 's in a bad way so Maisie Dingle told me . |
| 2 | A hole in one of the largest stone coffins was there , so Dr Raistrick told me , " to let the juices drain away " . |
| 3 | We run the amps at 110/120v , although Brian May told me he thinks they sound best at 220v . |
| 4 | ‘ So Lady Lavinia told me , and so I have seen . |
| 5 | For the sake of clarity , and since its fate is fundamental to what happened later , I have tried to omit my interruptions and the questions which demanded answers , and reduce it to a simple account based on the facts that Alec Reid told me . |
| 6 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |
| 7 | And J. J. told me there will be tape recordings of the program going out in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 8 | We walked slowly through the trees , and Lady Furness told me about Wallis … |
| 9 | It was the first time that score had been played in Cape Town , and John Wright told me that the players in rehearsal threw down their instruments in despair . |
| 10 | But Jim Walker told me that , despite these good developments , he was worried that the new system for community care might be underresourced . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 12 | ‘ But Dr Swod told me there was a rumour of someone particular in MI6 , possibly Mills , being the traitor . |
| 13 | ‘ But Mrs Aitken told me I 'd just missed him , so I got her to make me a cup of coffee . ’ |
| 14 | We were going to say hullo to you , and then walk round to that little island — it 's called Seal Island — I ca n't say the Gaelic name but Mrs McDougall told me that 's what it means . |
| 15 | Hazels are up and coming in Oregon ; the nuts are big but Stan Wickenden told me that ‘ you ca n't get the damn skins off . |
| 16 | ‘ But Steve Coppell told me I could n't have him until he found a replacement . |
| 17 | ‘ I — I ought not to be telling you this , but Lady Lavinia told me she would … leave me something . ’ |
| 18 | Because Mr Karajan told me he was a very great conductor — that was the last message he gave me . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I bought Picnic because Nick Skelton told me to , he knew I did n't have the biggest cash flow in the world , ’ Steven Smith said of a horse whose awkward streak would have been reflected in the price . |
| 20 | As Gerald Thomas told me : ‘ Our success appeared to be based on the demise of the British music hall , the slightly lavatorial humour that appealed to father and son alike — and to the fact that people knew what they were getting , like Heinz baked beans or Lux toilet soap . ’ |
| 21 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 22 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 23 | As Dr Ramos told me , ‘ There comes a point where faith and conviction are more important than hard data . ’ |
| 24 | As Hugh Paddick told me : ‘ We respected each other 's work . |
| 25 | As Hugh Paddick told me , ‘ it was never rehearsed ’ . |
| 26 | Chris Earle , Shell Oils business development manager , said : ‘ When Mr Oakes told me about Oliver 's talent we just had to get involved . |
| 27 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 28 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
| 29 | I nearly wet meself laughing when Mrs Jenkins told me , I thought it was so funny . ’ |
| 30 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |