Example sentences of "told [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As late as yesterday the Home Office told them no decision 's been made on its future . |
| 2 | He told them a story about his own children , when they were very young . |
| 3 | But they met anyway , in part because in their early childhood one or other of their parents , usually but not always the father , had taken them aside and told them a great responsibility would fall to them : the carrying forward of a hermetically protected family secret , and in part because the Society looked after its own . |
| 4 | He told them a story about a gooseberry in a lift and one about holes in Australia . |
| 5 | There are the scribes and the Pharisees , and they began grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and Jesus told them a parable . |
| 6 | To send her two young sons , Mathieu and Laurent , to sleep , Cécile de Brunhoff told them the story of a little elephant who left the forest to discover the town and learn the ways of men , before returning to his own idyllic land of the elephants to be crowned king . |
| 7 | In New Orleans , his brother and sister met Susan Schilling , who told them the story of her . |
| 8 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 9 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 10 | ‘ When my friends asked me why I left the ministry , I told them the focus was too narrow . |
| 11 | Later in the evening , when the sheep and cows were in , and the family was sitting round the fire , Śa kar told them the whole story of what had happened . |
| 12 | Bill Barnes took off with two others , one I believe was Orr , and had climbed to about 2,000 feet after making contact with the Malta Tower who told them the raid was coming in low and very fast . ’ |
| 13 | Paul doubted it , and his fears were confirmed when the assistant told them the price . |
| 14 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 15 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 16 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
| 17 | I told them the truth — he visits me , but he does n't live here . |
| 18 | I told them the arguments put forward by Visual Effects , only to be told in return manufacturing a conical base would have been much easier as it could all have been done from one two-part mould in half the time . ’ |
| 19 | We told them the truth and as usual when a panic was over they apologized but warned that we must be patient . |
| 20 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 21 | who told them the truth about her letter to Sir Charles |
| 22 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 23 | Mrs Bottomley told them the health service had to move with the times and some closures were inevitable . |
| 24 | ‘ We told them the money would go to other children who do n't have any toys and , worse than that , do n't have any food or anywhere to live . ’ |
| 25 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 26 | That 's why I sa that 's why I told them the weekend I thought at least I 'll have something sha n't I ? |
| 27 | A nurse told me a policeman wanted to see me , but visitors had been barred until tomorrow . |
| 28 | ‘ The vice-minister of the atomic energy industry told me a nuclear plant was being built to cope with the power shortage , ’ said the defector . |
| 29 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Somebody told me a very good memory game to play the other day . |