Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
7 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
8 | ‘ I told you the same thing . ’ |
9 | ‘ You told me the other day that you could n't remember the farewell party very clearly , ’ she began . |
10 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
11 | She told her the plain truth . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
14 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
15 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
16 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
17 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | They told me the legal position and asked how hard I was prepared to fight . |
20 | ‘ One train a week and they told me the wrong day . |
21 | Well I was supposed to be but erm every single time they arrange it and they either tell me the wrong da well they told me the wrong day last week cos , they told me Tuesd they told me it was Thursday when it , when it was actually Tuesday when I was getting pissed at Scott 's house so erm it was too late by then . |
22 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | He told her the whimpering man had cancer and had had his tongue amputated . |
25 | He told them the only way we could agree to a news-blackout was if they co-operated with us and gave us a free hand in the investigation . ’ |
26 | He told me , he told me the other night . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |