Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Newley told me to do the RTI expense sheet this morning . ’ |
| 2 | I contacted schools , newspapers and magazines for young women willing to fill in a questionnaire or be interviewed about self-image , and what they told me forms the main part of this book . |
| 3 | ‘ She told me to get the small details right from the start — things like hair , clothes , likes and dislikes — because it 's the small details that define an individual . ’ |
| 4 | I told you to keep the new ones separate . |
| 5 | Kathleen Woodward 's mother of the 1890s was the one I knew : mothers were people who told you how long they were in labour with you , how much you hurt , how hard it was to have you ( " twenty hours with you , " my mother frequently reminded me ) and who told you to accept the impossible contradiction of being both desired and being a burden , and not to complain . |
| 6 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 7 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 8 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 9 | And I told her to keep the twenty for that stuff in there . |