Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [pers pn] that [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 | Well I told you that man was trimming trees at the bottom , the other day . |
5 | You know , I told you that day Ju I saw Julie walking down top of Broadway ? |
6 | ‘ I do n't know why I told you that story — it is n't one I 'm very proud of . |
7 | Well I told you that Fenwicks had and they were cheaper than |
8 | Er er , you know I told you that thingy ? |
9 | I told you that butter was n't good for watches ! ’ he said angrily to the March Hare . |
10 | I told you that pea joke . |
11 | 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 |
12 | 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 . |
13 | I told you that mother three months ago . |
14 | my , I told you that mother 's day one was one ninety nine |
15 | You told him that thing . |
16 | When you told me that night in Harcourt Street those things about your private life , honest to God , Stevie , I was not able to eat my dinner . |
17 | Yeah , you told me that story |
18 | ‘ You suspected that from the little you told me that morning at Coutances I had made investigations and found out something . ’ |
19 | I had no idea that it was Martin until you told me that morning . |
20 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
21 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
22 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
23 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |