Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] told [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he complained , ‘ what would be your reaction if I told you the moon just fell out of the sky ? ’ |
| 3 | As I believe that you both did , when you were my age — if you can remember so far back — but I knew you would prevent me from doing so if I told you the truth . ’ |
| 4 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 5 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 6 | I du n no if they told me the way — I can t remember , but I think it 's this way . |
| 7 | If he did tell me anything it would be a pack of lies , because obviously the secret would n't be a secret any more if he told me the truth , and he can feel , as I do , that with my increasing maturity he needs all the holds over me he can get ; I 'm not a child any more . |
| 8 | If he told her the fence would be best in barbed wire she 'd believe him . |
| 9 | Sport , erm , I remember when I learned badminton , that the teacher would show us the high smash shot down , until we saw it being done properly , if he told us the theory of it without showing us what it looked like when it was done properly , we would n't have known what we were aiming at . |
| 10 | It wo n't obstruct no light though because I told you the sun is more er , without the back it joins down the car |
| 11 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 12 | That was before he told you the news ? ’ |
| 13 | They were very pleased when I told them the outcome of my night on the tiles and Otley sat next to me on the sofa with his arm round my shoulders . |
| 14 | But Miss Blagden , whom I met by chance yesterday , is going to Rome and when I told her the absurdity of your request she volunteered to carry your ridiculous weapon saying she had always had a fancy to be a gun-runner and that it would be a tale to tell her friends and astonish them . |
| 15 | That 's life , on Vadinamia , as I said to Mala when I told her the news . |
| 16 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 17 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 18 | ‘ When they told me the body had been mutilated and burnt I did n't think it was Brian . |
| 19 | I was shocked when he told me the truth . |
| 20 | When he told her the truth it sounded like cruelty . |
| 21 | Blanche plugged in the electric kettle and spooned coffee into the percolator while she listened to the sergeant 's account of his afternoon , swearing softly when he told her the news from the forensic labs . |