Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that story . |
| 2 | I told her that oiling was not our job and that management was always trying to make us do more work for the same pay . |
| 3 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 4 | Why do you think I told her those stories , the other night , about demons getting their comeuppances ? |
| 5 | I told her some Cliff Top stuff , about my sort of overprotective mother and my absent father . |
| 6 | When I told her this afternoon that I was gon na be away till maybe tomorrow morning I do n't know what I expected . |
| 7 | Yeah well I told her this morning . |
| 8 | They liked me because I told them dirty jokes , made good after-dinner speeches , did a reasonable job for them in terms of links with government and that kind of thing , and had a bit of class . |
| 9 | ‘ I told them several times I had met him only briefly . |
| 10 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 11 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 12 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
| 13 | Oliver said when I told him this story rather hesitatingly , though I expect my nerves were to do with talking about Gillian . |
| 14 | I told him this evening that I must have some daylight . |
| 15 | I told him this morning . ’ |
| 16 | I told him last summer about it . |
| 17 | I told him last week that he looked more like a German than a Frenchman and he became very cross . ’ |
| 18 | Eighteen months previously President Kennedy had ordered the withdrawal of the American missiles in Turkey but eighteen months later those missiles were still there and when Kennedy was presented with this bargain , bargaining counter by Khrushchev he sort of shouted at his chiefs of staff and secretary of defence and anyone else he could shout at and sort of said what the hell are those missiles still doing in Turkey , I told you eighteen months ago for God 's sake get rid of them ! |
| 19 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
| 20 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
| 22 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
| 23 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
| 24 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
| 25 | I told you that pea joke . |
| 26 | which like I say saw one up at erm I told you that fireplace shop on the corner , mind you I think we 'll get Edwards in , he had some in about a hundred and sixty quid or so |
| 27 | Anyway to finish that story about stopping and starting , I stopped there for fifty years and me mother was still alive when er when I at ninety three and when I retired in nineteen seventy nine , nineteen eighty I told me mum that I was finishing and she looked at me I told you that job would n't last and I , I , I mean I 'd done fifty years all but a few months . |
| 28 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
| 29 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
| 30 | ‘ Would it make any difference , ’ Fen asked , ‘ if I told you those photographs are not of Petula ? ’ |