Example sentences of "and [pers pn] told [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I told him all about France and Spain and the Goyas and Albi and everything else . |
| 2 | And I told him all about it . |
| 3 | Anyway , he come out and I told him all rigmarole ! |
| 4 | I told him about paint work under the bonnet , Mark had they 'd mentioned some paint work had got ta be dealt with and that passenger door with the draught and I told them that . |
| 5 | ‘ But Mother went scarlet when the boss 's wife told me what a nice suit I was wearing , and I told her that Mother had spent nearly all night making it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And I told you all about it when his excellency had finished kicking you around . ’ |
| 7 | He asked her lots of questions , and she told him all about her life in India . |
| 8 | And she told him all that Irene had told her that morning . |
| 9 | And she told him wonderful tales , about the sea.king 's palace , about the windswept isle of Bujan and the amber stone Alatyr , about Perun , the god of the thunder , about the dragon of Lake Rikavatz and the Zmayevska Vatra , the dragons ' fire , which lies deep down below the round of the world . |
| 10 | And she told me that , while working at another bank , she had once been summoned to an office four flights away . |
| 11 | And she told me some character called Steve produced a gun when Newman , the foreign correspondent , interrupted their tete-a-tete . |
| 12 | She had just come from London and she told us all about the great spirit of British resistance to the Nazi air attacks . |
| 13 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 14 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |
| 15 | ‘ And they told him this here cow run away . |
| 16 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 17 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 18 | Because he was annoyed and he told me blank that they should have discussed the situation first |
| 19 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |