Example sentences of "[pron] told [pers pn] the [adj] news " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , when Frankie and Liza , my brother and sister , came in from playing I told them the sad news , but they did n't seem very upset . |
| 2 | It was Nanny who told me the rotten news . |
| 3 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 4 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 5 | I remember him taking me for a drive in his car when he told me the joyful news about his forthcoming marriage to Rosemary and feeling so happy that he was going to be happy . |