Example sentences of "[noun] told [pers pn] about the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Brownie Owl was very sympathetic when Penny told her about the lost budgie . |
2 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
3 | Ward told him about the two diversions below Chilete and the need to switch to the old road that ran along the lip of the gorge . |
4 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
5 | So Brenda told her about the adventurous ride by the short cut . |
6 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
7 | While they ate their first course , a delicately flavoured clear soup , Nathan told her about the winemaking establishments which lay along the shore to the south of the town . |
8 | Doreen 's letter told us about the mysterious sickness . |
9 | In other classes learned men told him about the economic infrastructure of the Low Countries and Germany , and the Burmese rubber nexus . |
10 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
11 | As concisely as she could , Melissa told him about the missing sketch of Delia Forbes , her subsequent visit to the house in Regency Terrace and the possibility of a plot by one of Eddie 's discarded lovers to kill Angy . |
12 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |