Example sentences of "he told me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 2 | He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties . |
| 3 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 4 | He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure . |
| 5 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 6 | He told me with simple gravity , as a matter decided and not to be discussed , that he had decided to resign his office . |
| 7 | ‘ To see the trash ! ’ he told me with childlike frankness . |
| 8 | He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’ |
| 9 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |