Example sentences of "told [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fru Møller just told that lady that it never rains here in August , but the dolls say it often does and they packed their mackintoshes ! ’ |
| 2 | I told that lady . ’ |
| 3 | Dolomite , its in the paper , its in the paper for five-fifty , but I told that lady last night is it , what , what is , what 's , what 's your minimum offer , I said well I want four hundred for it I 'm not going to take any less so I was , I was sort of and |
| 4 | I told that woman that if she offered me |
| 5 | GOVERNMENT TOLD THAT APPOINTMENT OF / TEMPORARY JUDGES COULD LEAD TO / MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE |
| 6 | Couples told that fertility service may end |
| 7 | She repeatedly phoned Landlords , but was either unable to get an answer or told that manager Howard Keizner was unavailable . |
| 8 | In eleven miles Cameron and Menzies had passed three houses — all the fewer people to betray the refugees , they told each other . |
| 9 | But when push came to shove , we blase Western correspondents told each other , the government and the party would get their way . |
| 10 | ‘ No question , ’ they told each other in educated voices , ‘ that woman 's doing her best for us . |
| 11 | They read some of his books together , and told each other stories . |
| 12 | Shemayah and Abtalion told each other ( according to the Talmudic account ) " This man deserves that the Sabbath be profaned on his behalf " ( b . |
| 13 | Usually he never bothered to talk to her in bed , but this was what real lovers did , told each other their fears and worries , confided in each other , helped each other . |
| 14 | But he then told each layer of management to appoint the layer below it . |
| 15 | She told some lies about the close relations between the old malai half of the island and ours which had , she said , made them indistinguishable for all practical purposes : for example , it was not an invasion but a reunion . |
| 16 | Someone told some cat burglar where to find that picture ! ’ |
| 17 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 18 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 19 | I had repeated a story told some weeks before by our minister at the chapel , and he was one of the party guests . |
| 20 | other day and I told this lady and she goes , who the hell are you ? |
| 21 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 22 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 23 | Years later , when they told this story , those who had conceived the plan insisted that they would have carried out the attack in their own names , as rebels , and not under the Shah 's authority . |
| 24 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 25 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 26 | ‘ The first time , ’ he said , ‘ I was standing at Sandown airport and told this man that Frank Spencer was flying the plane that was coming down to land . |
| 27 | Chatterjee told this idea to Bikash Sinha , Director of the Calcutta Cyclotron , during a car ride back from the springs in 1984 . |
| 28 | ( I told this lad what I thought of what he said too ) . |
| 29 | And she told this maid to go with the letters to post them . |
| 30 | John Major came back from the Edinburgh summit and he told this house that he was entirely happy with the his negotiation . |