Example sentences of "told me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny , the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match . |
| 2 | ‘ It speaks for all of us intellectuals , but will upset some people ’ , one class of students told me during a ‘ Heshang ’ discussion . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 4 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 5 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 6 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 7 | Two Bengali women in their twenties told me of many women they knew , and knew of , who were thus stranded . |
| 8 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 9 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 10 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 11 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 12 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 13 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 14 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 15 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |
| 16 | He told me of his travels from one Bed and Breakfast to another , from Galway to Sligo to Donegal . |
| 17 | There was no more time for sight-seeing if I were to catch my train , but the helpful Matthews told me of martyr Sir Oliver Plunkett 's head , preserved in a church at Drogheda . |
| 18 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 19 | The stage manager told me of John 's background and interest in theatre and that he ‘ was making himself useful ’ . |
| 20 | He cackled as he told me of his plan . |
| 21 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 22 | At first I refused , but then he told me of Daniel 's murder , and said no-one would believe I was not implicated … ’ |
| 23 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 24 | Someone else told me of a friend who brought her ninety-year-old mother to visit her . |
| 25 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 26 | ‘ Friar Tuck told me of you , ’ he said ; and then as though it might be a password to their confidence he added : ‘ He told me that you hunt the unicorn . ’ |
| 27 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 28 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 29 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 30 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |