Example sentences of "told me [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 2 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 3 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 4 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | As show jumper and trainer John Bunyan told me on our first lesson ( see next month 's diary ) : ‘ You have to work out the difference between ‘ Ca n't ’ and ‘ Wo n't ’ . |
| 7 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 8 | As he lit a cigarette , ( he rolls his own from a tobacco mix in a tin ) he told me about his early life . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw Doctor Rossitter this morning , ’ she said abruptly , ‘ and he told me about you both , and your — dilemma . |
| 10 | He scored a further success with Colonel Nathaniel Montgomery Moore who , on the visit which he , his wife and Miss D'Arcy had just taken to Dumfries , had encountered none other than Major General Gerard Lake , ‘ who told me about your great gallantry at Guelder — Gueld — ‘ |
| 11 | I think you told me in your last letter that he is having dinner with the Stapletons tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 12 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |