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 .
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