Example sentences of "[noun sg] told i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
2 | He three-putted the 14th , and then the television buggy came past on its way to the 15th , and the guys on board told me that Crenshaw — — who was nearest challenger then — had double-bogeyed 17 . |
3 | ‘ I carried on training as best I could after the operation , but when the specialist told me six months later that I could n't play again , I was shocked . |
4 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
5 | An informed insider told me last night : ‘ It is absolutely certain that Nigel has done the deal . |
6 | My father told me one evening that neither he nor my mother would think the worse of me if I did not go . |
7 | Lerissa had weighed anchor ( breaking a 56lb Danforth in the process , her owner told me next day ) and was wandering around the anchorage looking for a new parking place . |
8 | Phillips said : ‘ The bench told me two minutes , the referee seven minutes . |
9 | My Nan told me last night . ’ |
10 | A spokesman told me this week : ‘ It 's a top-shelf title . |
11 | A leading textile and clothing employer told me last night that if we implemented the social clause it could cost thousands of jobs within his company . |
12 | Why , as a senior British civil servant told me last week , is black Africa more and more convinced that Communism and not democracy , is the wave of the future ? |
13 | ‘ Me dad told me that story abaht Bobby Peel as a lesson . |
14 | Finally , speaking in a low voice , the boy said : ‘ There 's something you do n't know : dad told me this morning that he was in bed when I got home last night . ’ |
15 | My mother told me that Dad was on one of his frequent business trips to America and would be home in a couple of days . |