Example sentences of "i tell [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ We do n't want you to be neglected , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 32 | ‘ Not today , thank you , ’ I told him for the umptieth time . |
| 33 | ‘ Neither , ’ I told him with a grin . |
| 34 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
| 35 | I told him about the sunsets , when the Jungfrau had turned pink and I was the only person on the Aletsch . |
| 36 | ‘ You did n't seem very surprised , ’ he said , ‘ when I told him about the note . ’ |
| 37 | I told him about the Reformation and about nineteenth-century Catholic Emancipation . |
| 38 | I told him about the weekend we spent in Kent where Wendy 's brother was stationed , and how we had visited Canterbury Cathedral on our way to Charing , which meant , I explained pedantically , a ‘ turn ’ on the Pilgrim Way . |
| 39 | ‘ I told him about the tramp , and he thinks he might have started the fire by knocking his pipe out on the dry grass . ’ |
| 40 | When I told him about the Whitehorse Cinema manager offering him $500. to fly up to open the new building , he laughed loud and long . |
| 41 | I told him about the advertisement , and he was enthusiastic . |
| 42 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 43 | I told him about the lavatory on the entrance floor , which did for the fourteen tenants in the house . |
| 44 | Then when I told him about the baby he was more definite . |
| 45 | I told him about the defenestration of Ramsey Everett and he gave me five hundred pounds . |
| 46 | I told him about the concert . ’ |
| 47 | I told him about the frogs and all he could think of was socks ! ’ |
| 48 | But I told him about the telly that it 's a bit beyond redemption . |
| 49 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
| 50 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 51 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 52 | And then the solicitor asked us to advised us to have certain things amended and Mr had no problem when I told him over the telephone , he just said send it back and we 'll just amend it . |
| 53 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 54 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 55 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 56 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 57 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 58 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 59 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 60 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |