Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] told me [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 2 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 3 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 4 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 5 | A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for . |
| 6 | Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’ |
| 7 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 8 | Like many of the other female physics students , she rejected it and told me that she had no intention of continuing with physics afterwards . |