Example sentences of "i told you [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had to walk because you they they could n't take them in in in any conveyance at all because er it was over what they call the viaducts , you know and the big rushes and reeds , I told you about a chap hitting them did n't I ? |
| 2 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I told you about the Carnival when I replied to your last letter . |
| 4 | I told you about the pains , ’ — she is holding her stomach — ‘ and the thing I ca n't bear is this week the children have them too . ’ |
| 5 | This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally . |
| 6 | ‘ I ca n't believe it … definitely the Hamlet if I want it — I 've worked with those people before ; remember I told you about the provincial-theatre year ? ’ she said , scrambling her words . |
| 7 | Remember that thing I told you about the bones the other night ? |
| 8 | I know sa so if you get mine what , I told you about the blind as they go , do n't pull them up when they 're wet . |
| 9 | ‘ You heard it could be murder ? — yes , I told you on the phone . |
| 10 | Sally-Anne was by now in full flow , and when she paused for breath Dr Neil said , as drily as he could , ‘ I will only say to you what I told you on the day when you arrived here : it is useless to take the world 's burdens on your shoulders . |
| 11 | But I told you on the phone did n't I , it rained and |
| 12 | Christ Almighty , I told you at the time , did n't I ? |
| 13 | ‘ I told you at the fair — it 's out of your hands . |
| 14 | I told you at the time to stick out and then she would have to get a housekeeper in . |
| 15 | I told you at the beginning how it would be . |
| 16 | Here , in sequence , are quotations from Helen 's letters to Janet Aldis : Do you remember Janet ? , when I saw you last I told you of a plan I had made , regarding the boy who father is taking up , and who writes Nature sketches . |
| 17 | ‘ I told you from the start that my relationship with my ‘ harem ’ was purely a business one . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |
| 19 | ‘ I told you from the beginning that Joe Landau was no good for you . |
| 20 | That 's what I told you in the boat . ’ |
| 21 | The president was admitting to voters that ‘ everything I told you in the campaign was not true , ’ said Republican Senator Phil Gramm . |