Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
| 2 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 3 | do you remember when I told you about that baby on the maternity ward |
| 4 | When I got back ooh you know I told you about that job ? |
| 5 | Erm I told you about that chap Michael Bell who wrote to me about using my book as play , I 'll read you his letter some other week . |
| 6 | Now , if I told you about those years , you 'd have a story to write ! |
| 7 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 8 | Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again . |
| 9 | Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna |
| 10 | You told me about that disaster . |
| 11 | It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand . |
| 12 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 13 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 14 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 15 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 16 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 17 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 18 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 19 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |