Example sentences of "who tell me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An elderly English lady , with a tendency to pre-war propriety , who told me on the Friday that she was afraid it would all be ‘ another load of pretentious American rubbish ’ , said on Sunday that she had learned to open up for the first time in her life . |
| 2 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 3 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 4 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 5 | It was he who told me about the injuries the King received . |
| 6 | Having disposed of the simple administrative matter in a commonsense way , I then spoke to Chris protheroe who told me about the fatigue failure of the right stabiliser spar . |
| 7 | The one who told me about the five quid . |