Example sentences of "told [pron] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 2 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 3 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 4 | He had watched his sisters slide into prostitution , through financial and practical necessity , and told me in his Spanish dialect that he had become used to sleeping on the floor at home while they fucked a random selection of Cuban , Puerto Rican and American sailors from the nearby US Naval base at Subic Bay in the Philippines . |
| 5 | ‘ God help you , it 's the most exciting thing which has happened there since the man was buried , ’ he told me in his comfortably-scuffed office in Dublin . |
| 6 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 7 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 8 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 9 | He told her about his old school . |
| 10 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |