Example sentences of "[pron] told [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her about the tragic young man . |
| 2 | I told her about the Scottish physicist Charles ( C.T.R. ) Wilson 's interest in meteorology and of his accidental discovery of the tracks . |
| 3 | I told her of the big green seas , all crinkled and slow , heaving up astern as the icy wind scoured their tops into freezing spume . |
| 4 | I told her of the dead snake that you and she had found once , and which had been your special secret . |
| 5 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 6 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 7 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 8 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 9 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 10 | I told 'em about the listening post , so I do n't want it compromised , okay ? ’ |
| 11 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 12 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 13 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 14 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 15 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 16 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 17 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 18 | ‘ So you told 'em about the Regal Arms . ’ , |
| 19 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 20 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 21 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 22 | She told him about the secretarial course at the technical college and her plans eventually to go to London , perhaps to model . |
| 23 | Ellwood and Luke were crouched over Piper as he told them about the slow , magical dance of the cosmos . |
| 24 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 25 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 26 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 27 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 28 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 29 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 30 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |