Example sentences of "[noun prp] told [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I picked it for you because Jeff told me that blue 's your favourite colour . ’ |
| 2 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 3 | ‘ No , nor could her father — or so Mandeville told me last night after you had retired . |
| 4 | Over the fell , near where Deepdale meets Dentdale , is a farm called Coventree , which , Miley Taylor told me one night in the Sun Inn , is named after a tree beneath which the hairy crones of Dentdale would hold their covens and throw eye of newt and armpit of toad into the stew while waiting for the Dales equivalent of Macbeth and Banquo to come riding out of the night . |
| 5 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 6 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 7 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 8 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 9 | But Mr Patten told him good government should be founded on fact , not fantasy . |
| 10 | A quarter of a century ago , Colin Buchanan told us that road-building , improved public transport and some limitations on the use of vehicles would not aloe solve the problem of traffic in towns . |
| 11 | We walked the town walls , whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick 's stormy history . |
| 12 | Bailey told me this morning . |
| 13 | Senior South African official Ali Bacher told me last night : ‘ We are concerned about Allan , but he is entitled to earn a living wherever he can . |
| 14 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 15 | ‘ Humber told me Red Leland thinks he 'll make it . ’ |
| 16 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 17 | and er Susan told me this morning , you wo n't say nothing to nobody |
| 18 | Charlotte told me those things , much later . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's what poor Thomas told me that afternoon . |
| 20 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 21 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 22 | ‘ That , more or less , is what Miss Henry told me this afternoon , ’ she admitted . |
| 23 | As he did every time Henry told him these things . |