Example sentences of "[noun prp] tell i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 3 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 6 | Joey tells me last night he said oh by the way he said you do n't wan na hire your car up er the Berry 's . |
| 7 | Bailey told me this morning . |
| 8 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 9 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 10 | ‘ Humber told me Red Leland thinks he 'll make it . ’ |
| 11 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 12 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 13 | Charlotte told me those things , much later . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 15 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 16 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |