Example sentences of "told [pron] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life if I 'm not careful , ’ she told me one day . |
| 2 | A fellow fanzine writer , Steve Shy from ‘ Shy Talk ’ ( such were the ridiculous pseudonyms of the era ) told me one typical Sunday … |
| 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 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
| 5 | But he told me one of my stories was a masterpiece , and that one of my poems would move a stone . |
| 6 | I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night ! |
| 7 | Cor they look I told you one of them did n't have much in ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm to be on the committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows , ’ she told him one day . |
| 9 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 10 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 11 | A security man working at the centre said the injured man told him one of the gunmen put a sub-machine gun to his head , but that it had failed to go off . |
| 12 | Even told him one day , ‘ Let's go travelling , escape from our lush paradise |
| 13 | ‘ You 're going to have a little baby brother , Martha , ’ her mother told her one day . |
| 14 | ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face . |