Example sentences of "[noun prp] told [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 2 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 3 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 4 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 5 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 7 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 8 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 9 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 10 | Ellwood asked a lot of questions ; Piper told him a great deal about how the universe was ordered by the laws of music . |
| 11 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 12 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later . |
| 14 | They told , Diane told me the other night though , she 's had three years that she should n't have had . |
| 15 | Celia told him the little she knew . |
| 16 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 17 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 18 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 19 | Geoff told me a disgusting one this morning . |
| 20 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 21 | Another school-dinner lady in Wigan told me a typical tale : |
| 22 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 23 | Rosie told me the other nurses who worked here have tried to be more than just assistants to him . ’ |
| 24 | Rachel told her the only thing she could : that her sister had a mild indisposition , and I was her understudy . |
| 25 | After dinner , sitting on the veranda , with his pipe well alight and with a glass of neat Old Rarity at his side , Alec Reid told me the extraordinary story of the fortune which he said belonged to Tiare . |
| 26 | It 's makers , Smithkline Beecham told them the 2 litre bottle was from a faulty batch and to empty it carefully as it could explode . |
| 27 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |