Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] tell me [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , so she told me that |
| 2 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 3 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 4 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
| 5 | So we start negative two , minus two , and I know what add means cos you told me last time . |
| 6 | A year I had all the symptoms and I went and got a book and read about it and tried to find out as much possible about it and the book scared me silly because it told me all these things that could happen |
| 7 | I waited patiently while he told me forty different ways to get there . |
| 8 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
| 9 | The second time , I mean , when you told me all about everything . ’ |
| 10 | I was very sorry when you told me this morning of your decision to resign from the Government . |
| 11 | Myra sobbed as she told me that , although many men were attracted to her — and she to them — as soon as the relationship reached the stage of even the most innocent physical contact , such as a gentle kiss or even holding hands , something in her forced her to draw back and run away from the situation . |
| 12 | ’ When he told me this morning that I was his prisoner , not his … not anything else , he left two Gharrgoyles to guard me . |
| 13 | ( I can picture the laibon as he told me this , his son sitting behind him on a rock flossing his teeth . ) |
| 14 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |