Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police revealed yesterday that Joanna had told them a second man was involved in her disappearance . |
| 2 | He had told them a year ago that one of the main reasons he was interested in the paper was his conviction that the ‘ new realism ’ of print unions made it financially possible to seize the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 3 | I have n't told them a thing . ’ |
| 4 | If I 'd told them a tale like that then they would have had me down at the station before I could blink ! ’ |
| 5 | He says that the hospital should have told them a new machine was n't being bought . |
| 6 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
| 7 | She had not told them the whereabouts of the lavatory . |
| 8 | Consumers who were asked to nominate three dates for flying claimed the travel firm handling the offer has now told them the dates must be 30 days apart and to three different destinations . |
| 9 | This need for careful definition is ignored completely when one simply asks a panel of experts to name people with political power — one has not told them the criteria that they should use for judging whether an individual has power , and neither does one know whether the individuals have used even similar criteria for ascribing power to the individuals whose names they submit . |
| 10 | And had she told them the reason that was at the back of the suggestion , they would not have believed that either . |
| 11 | You 'd travel down to the game on a Saturday , and if you met a Leeds fan at the train station , you could be sure that they were the best mate he 'd ever had , and they 'd tell you all the latest gossip that he 'd told them the last time they were out for a few pints . |
| 12 | By Thursday , some journalists were reporting that a Royal aide had told them the marriage was ‘ clearly not made in heaven ’ . |
| 13 | There at the start of the working day , giving you , you 've got ta say that next step and tell them , okay , if you can say so what , you have n't told them the benefit . |
| 14 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |
| 15 | Michel 's told me a few things about himself ; he comes from a family of lawyers and administrators . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't told me a thing , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’ |
| 17 | Jay had told me a certain amount — about the offers of money if he left the deal clear for someone else . |
| 18 | How often had he told me a lie is always sinful and bad in itself . |
| 19 | Nanda 's just told me a secret , she said . |
| 20 | You 've told me a lot about your ideas , and I 've enjoyed sitting here listening to them . |
| 21 | ‘ So — you 're admitting to having told me a blatant lie ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Jacky 's told me a bit of it- and then we could think about what to do next . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Jane has told me a lot about you , ’ she said . |
| 24 | I do n't think she would have told me a , a lie . |
| 25 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've already told me a great many things , an alarming number of which have turned out not to be true . |
| 27 | You 've told me a million times how beautiful my island is , ’ Fernando laughed , sautéing garlic and onions . |
| 28 | mhm Well you 've told me a bit about what 's it 's like to be inside Kuwait , what about the Kuwaitis outside Kuwait ? |
| 29 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 30 | And my elder brother , he had told me the same thing — ‘ Babi , you are not listening to us so we are not responsible for anything . ’ |