Example sentences of "told [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now , I want you both to just relax and take it easy , ’ she told them with a warm smile . |
| 2 | But he told them in a straightforward way . |
| 3 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 4 | But a friend put some perspective into it when he told me of a recent visit to the Half Moon , a venerable pub venue in Putney : ‘ There were all these posters on the wall of bands from 20 and 25 years ago , and I thought , ‘ Cor , they must be valuable . ’ |
| 5 | But he told me of a new home just completed , where Aunt Louise had been offered a place . |
| 6 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 7 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 8 | In that case , he told me with a grim expression , there was something he had to warn me about . |
| 9 | ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began . |
| 10 | ‘ He told me in a general way that he was American . |
| 11 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 12 | March , the Secretary of State told me in a parliamentary answer that he was setting in train a new procedure for the appointment of a successor to Eric Bolton . |
| 13 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 14 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 15 | Jessamy told herself with a dark frown . |
| 16 | Teaching summer school , she told herself with a quick dart of guilt , not kissing wild Sardinians in the middle of the ocean . |
| 17 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes — keep your fingers crossed — I think I 've actually found someone at last , ’ she told him with a thankful sigh . |
| 19 | ‘ And for my own , ’ she told him with a small smile . |
| 20 | ‘ Your picnic is ready , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm so pleased , ’ she told him with a beaming smile . |
| 22 | Later Nutmeg went back to all his friends ( looking himself again ) + they all told him about a strange white cat who called himself Nutmeg . |
| 23 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 24 | But she could not , so she simply told him in a flat tone , ‘ We 've recently started exporting to Europe and Japan . |
| 25 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to drop me off at the nearest hotel , ’ she told him in a strained voice . |
| 27 | ‘ I love you , Fernando , ’ she told him in a hoarse whisper , ‘ you must believe that … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 29 | If Charlie had been a different man , a cultivated man or effeminate or living in a bygone age when tongues were more freely unloosed , he might now have embraced Jack and told him from a full heart how he entered wholly into his joy and would die for his happiness . |
| 30 | In the spring of this year , a pharmacist told her about a new drug called Imigran . |