Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 2 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 3 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 4 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 5 | She gave Anne potted biographies of all the other patients and told her about her own treatment . |