Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] told [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |