Example sentences of "[noun sg] told me [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The outcome ca n't be good ’ , one student told me in 1984 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The old man told me in this connection : |
| 6 | I had found one honest man here , and that terrible , distant scream told me of another . |