Example sentences of "[noun sg] told me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 2 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 3 | After two weeks with no sign of improvement , a friend told me of an excellent new rheumatologist who had just come to work in Chester . |
| 4 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 5 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 6 | My father told me of an old lady who to the end of her days referred to ‘ Amser Duw ac amser Lloyd George , ’ God 's time and Lloyd George 's time , for when the change was introduced during the Great War , there was chaos . |
| 7 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 8 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 9 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 10 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 11 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 12 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |