Example sentences of "who told [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know , Holly , there was a man here once who told me an extraordinary thing about women … ’ |
| 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 | ‘ It was an old Pole called Poniatowski , now in exile in Paris , who told me the awful , ghastly , horrifying details . |
| 5 | To start with I went along to visit local parent , Mrs Audrey Durrant , who told me the main problem she faces as the mother of a ten year old dyslexic boy . |
| 6 | Then , a bit later , I got your landlady who told me the bad news . |
| 7 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |