Example sentences of "[vb past] told [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 2 | ‘ To a certain extent you 'll have free rein , ’ he 'd told her over the telephone . |
| 3 | They 've given me a major interrogation — I 'd told you about the Englishman — that 's what I should have been working on , not an idiot fire . |
| 4 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 5 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 6 | What they had told him about the paper was ‘ positively negative ’ — an endless list of what the paper was not going to do , rather than what it was going to do . |
| 7 | He could n't bring himself to believe what Ace had told him about the TARDIS 's ability to move . |
| 8 | Memories came rushing back of the night when Johnny had described this room ; the night she had told him about the time hiccup . |
| 9 | Celia had told him about the Journal , and he realized she would prefer him to turn it down . |
| 10 | Huddle had told him about the rogue , turning up in his garish garments and standing on the church steps , offering to sell pardons to those who could afford them . |
| 11 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 12 | He apparently was doing some work for her father , David Fairfax , and had told him about the school . |
| 13 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 14 | The divisional inspector had told him on the telephone of arrangements made for the use of a former Salvation Army hall , opposite the nick . |
| 15 | He was watching Charles closely , as if afraid that he would not be believed , when he came to describe the meeting with Maureen O'Duffy and what she had told them during the drive down the mountain . |
| 16 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 17 | Something Neil had told me about the island . |
| 18 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 19 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 20 | She would find one , they had told her at the training depot , at most main-line stations . |
| 21 | After Mr Bush had told her of the US military action by telephone at 7am , an hour after his troops moved in , Mrs Thatcher told reporters : ‘ I believe he was right to do so . |
| 22 | Her encounters with Timothy had continued and it was he who had told her of the birth of Andrew 's son a year after his marriage . |
| 23 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 24 | Mrs Moore had n't understood much of what Sister Duggan had told her about the recurrence of fluid and the aspiration that was again necessary . |
| 25 | ‘ You can get out now if you want to , ’ he said , after he had told her about the phone call to Coy . |
| 26 | Why had she nearly fainted when I had told her about the letter ? |
| 27 | Forcing her mind away from what Rune had told her about the time he 'd spent with Lotta and how the relationship had evaporated with only the bitter dregs left in evidence , she allowed it to dwell on how they 'd spent the rest of the day . |
| 28 | Amaranth had repeated enough of what Harvey had told her about the motorway to make it worthwhile telephoning his partner in Arden to make local inquiries . |
| 29 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |