Example sentences of "tell i [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I , a hairdresser told me that years ago Elaine . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ In 1985 , ’ a Boulevard fan told me last year , ‘ Wigan had superman on the wing . ’ |
| 4 | Mr John told me last year he paid a lot of money for all this and it 's still not bloody working ! |
| 5 | Well he told me last year he 'd applied . |
| 6 | If you had told me four years ago that what has happened would happen , I would have expected to have been in pretty poor shape by now . |
| 7 | ‘ If someone had told me five years ago that I would be living amongst murderers , I would not have believed it . |
| 8 | The one person who should have been with her was absent , having ( as Aunt Nessy had told me some years before in bewilderment , and with a valiantly suppressed trembling of the lip ) written to say that she never wanted to see her again . |