Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] my [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 2 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 3 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Like poor Lanyon when I told him about my new ideas . |
| 6 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 7 | I think my mum is still in a state of shock after I told her about my Irish selection . ’ |