Example sentences of "and told [pers pn] [Wh adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He patted me on the back and told me how much he needed and appreciated my support . |
| 2 | He wrung my hand for about five minutes and told me how much pleasure the meeting had given him , though God knows where he had extracted the pleasure from , and expressed the most fervent hope that we would become the firmest friends in the nearest possible future . |
| 3 | He went to her , and told her how much he loved her , and that she was not to heed him ; it was the headaches that made him distracted ; that day he had been almost blind ; Mr Lamprey had suggested spectacles , and perhaps now he could afford them . |
| 4 | After the matinée , she had met him for tea , and he had held her hand , and looked soulful , and told her how innocent she was and how easy it would be to fall in love with her , but how he must n't , he could n't , because he would be leaving and it would n't be fair to her , and anyway , he had his career to think of , etc . |
| 5 | The year the shop opened she hired a new dress designer , Jacqui Smale , fresh from the Royal College of Art , and told her how sensible she thought it was to wear uniform because this removed the agonies of planning what to wear each day as well as the decisions about accessories to go with the clothes . |
| 6 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |
| 7 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 8 | On the wall , the new star mounted a photograph of Gene Kelly , who came to see him and told him how proud he was of his performance , and painted on the door were the words ‘ Ginger Crawford ’ . |
| 9 | We stayed for a while to chat and told him how great we thought New Zealand was . |
| 10 | We went out to meet him at the airport and Signe hugged him and told him how much she 'd missed him and how she had cooked all his favourite foods for one vast homecoming meal but she had had an urgent phone call about sickness in the family and the dinner had all burned up so now we must eat in a restaurant . |
| 11 | " I guess you saw Mendez , " I said , and told him how much . |
| 12 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 13 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |