Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] told [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 2 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 3 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 4 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 5 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
| 6 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 7 | One of the tragedies to that it has now become so expensive but is very difficult but not because it was sponsored but somebody told me the other night that the Billy Connolly programme excuse me Billy Connolly programme about art and culture was |
| 8 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 9 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 10 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 11 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |