Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 2 | And so I told her the whole story of my lonely childhood with the Reed family , and of my terrible experience in the red room . |
| 3 | I told her the old lady was rich and that she had done the cottage up beautifully . |
| 4 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 5 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 6 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 7 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 8 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 9 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 10 | I told you the first Michele had it specially made . |
| 11 | But I , you know , I told you the front brakes they er snapped the middle and all this . |
| 12 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
| 13 | Even , for instance , what you told me a few weeks back ? |
| 14 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
| 15 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
| 16 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 17 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 21 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 22 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 23 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 24 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 25 | So it 's very likely she told you a few fibs . |
| 26 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 27 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 28 | WE TOLD you a few weeks back that multi-million pound striker Marco Gabbiadini was on the way out at Derby . |
| 29 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
| 30 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |