Example sentences of "told [pers pn] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've told them it really means something to people . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Singh told me that one of his brothers-in-law had told them it was a school for mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 4 | We 've told them it might come to that ; the shop-stewards , anyway . |
| 5 | right l I 'd said to Paul now have you told them it 's . |
| 6 | From all that he has told me it was a terrible experience , but he has now set up his Foundation to help other sufferers , and this is a great joy to him . |
| 7 | We did n't sight of her once , even though the vet had told me it could be an hour before the drug took effect . |
| 8 | From what thoo 's told me it was not his fault . |
| 9 | ‘ Going out to America saved me a lot of time — an English surgeon had told me it would be a year before I kicked a ball again but I was back playing within six months . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Why is it , ’ he asks rhetorically , ‘ that musicians in general do n't like to play Berliozz ? they themselves have told me it takes fierce discipline to play the music in true ensemble ; it takes a lot of rehearsal to sound fluent at the tempos Berlioz often requires . |
| 11 | He asked if Mum had told me it , and I said , ‘ Certainly not . |
| 12 | ‘ If you remember , you had told me it was over and I was … persuading you that it was n't , ’ he reminded her unwillingly . |
| 13 | well I , I think I 'll take agree Mr you know much more about these matters than I do , I just , my eye just lit upon that one I thought that would perhaps the one in which the insurance directive could be said to be attached , but if you 've told me it 's C I 'm perfectly happy to accept it as being C. |
| 14 | If I 'd known what you intended to do with it , I 'd never have told you it existed . ’ |
| 15 | No doubt I ought to have told you it was a trick , but he had made the plan to stop you going to his flat . |
| 16 | ‘ Emma , has n't anyone told you it 's wrong to harbour grudges ? ’ |
| 17 | I 've told you it was an accident ! ’ |
| 18 | I 've already told you it was an accident . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Has n't anyone told you it 's not very polite ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always told you it was n't like that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You did n't believe me when I said I had n't distracted Simon and you would n't have believed me if I 'd told you it was your child I might be carrying , ’ she replied , her voice shaking a little despite all her efforts to project a calm image . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd told you it was dinner you would have made an excuse . ’ |
| 23 | Oh well I 've told you it three times now ! |
| 24 | Could of told you it was ! |
| 25 | Perhaps someone had told him it was she who 'd informed the assassin Zambia was here . |
| 26 | An aide had told him it was just one of Benin 's little idiosyncrasies . |
| 27 | He went through his whole performance second by second , from the moment Westerman had introduced him and he had waved at the camera , to the moment Westerman had summed up , and he had told him it was absolutely fascinating . |
| 28 | Though in her anger she 'd told him it was no more than he deserved , in reality she considered it a rather low thing to have done . |
| 29 | She could have told him it did the same for him , but she did n't . |
| 30 | Mr Chicken said that during interview Taylor claimed that mart officials had told him it would be all right to bring the pigs in . |