Example sentences of "[pron] told me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 7 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 8 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 12 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 13 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 14 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 15 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |