Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 2 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 3 | I told him in great detail . |
| 4 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you so much for the advice , ’ she told him with icy calm , ‘ but I can assure you that it was n't necessary . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Oh … oh , so was mine , ’ she told him with hasty fervour . |
| 7 | ‘ There are other ways , ’ she told him with Spartan vigour . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility . |
| 9 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 10 | He must always believe the things she told him about other people , especially those in his father 's family , but Frankie sometimes found her instructions very hard to understand . |
| 11 | She told him about open heart surgery , and lasers ; about credit cards and the cost of living , and the vast expense involved when buying a moderately sized residence like Rose Cottage , which he regarded as little short of scandalous , totally unable to begin to comprehend such vast sums of money being paid for such a relatively small return . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 13 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 14 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 15 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's the heavens rejoicing , ’ he told her with firm surety . |
| 17 | Awfully cold , ’ he told her with malicious pleasure . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's what one does to necks , ’ he told her with mock menace . |
| 19 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 20 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 21 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |