Example sentences of "[pers pn] told me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	What would you actually do then , you said you sat round a table , you told me about that , the table with the white cloth .
2	Tess , when you told me about that child of ours , my feelings for you became strong again .
3	You told me about that , yeah .
4	You told me about that disaster .
5	Hm I 'm glad you told me about that Lorna
6	It was there she told me about this sister and showed me her hand .
7	And erm then of course she told me about this so my mother went to see him .
8	And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish !
9	He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc .
10	He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties .
11	Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man .
12	He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure .
13	With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing .
14	He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office .
15	‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness .
16	He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’
17	He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States .

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