Example sentences of "[vb past] tell i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 2 | I had dinner with an actor the other night who managed to tell me three times throughout the meal that he was 50 . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , Gooseneck did tell me that Fagg suffers from gout and haemorrhoids , which make him behave even more horribly than when symptom-free . ’ |
| 4 | She did tell me some things in her letters , but not enough . |
| 5 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 6 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 7 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |
| 8 | If anybody had told me this time last year that we 'd find another pyramid at Giza , I 'd have said they were crazy ’ . |
| 9 | that copper man had told me this morning |
| 10 | She had to tell me three times before it sunk in . |