Example sentences of "[noun sg] told [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 2 | And they say yes we will , our business teach teacher told us about that you see because it 's been happening a lot , cos Marks and Spencers do n't ask for a receipt you see , it actually happened , they used to take things from upstairs , bring them downstairs and said they bought it and got the money for it . |
| 3 | ‘ Your wife told you about this ? ’ |
| 4 | A waitress told me of such an incident when she heard a rumour that her hotel management had appointed private detectives with the power to search staff homes — a not uncommon fear among hotel workers and one paralleling similar periodic fears in other occupations of this type . |
| 5 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 6 | Mind reading At one of my first-ever children shows , the father told me of this mind reading trick which we found worked well with the children . |
| 7 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 8 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 9 | The man told him in sarcastic tones that he could have his £9 back at any time if he brought in the young lady in the photograph . |
| 10 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |