Example sentences of "told me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 2 | I laughed when my mother told me of the entire postnatal fortnight spent in the maternity hospital , with bedpans and blanket baths and fierce ward sisters who wagged fingers at you if you as much as stuck a big toe over the side of the bed . |
| 3 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 4 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 5 | She often told me of the nightly air-raids , her parents worn out from fire-watching , houses in the familiar streets suddenly plunged into dust , people suddenly gone , news of sons lost at the Front . |
| 6 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 7 | Ranu , a Sylheti woman in her late twenties , told me of the enveloping love and care a woman with her first or second child can receive in Bangladesh . |
| 8 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 9 | My mother told me about the famous people who lived in them . |
| 10 | Er another thing that I mean thought , somebody told me about the other day er it 's an old thing is er gravel drives . |
| 11 | My acupuncturist told me about the broad-leafed veg , and I did n't think to ask him what he was on about . |
| 12 | Mum told me about the various forms of contraception but apart from that we did n't really talk about it . |
| 13 | And he told me about the increased risk of late miscarriage with amniocentesis as well . ’ |
| 14 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 15 | He told me about the extensive work involved in restoring the area behind the cockpit . |
| 16 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 17 | The one who told me about the five quid . |
| 18 | Michael told me about the interesting feature in one of the corners . |
| 19 | When you told me about the American girl , I hoped it meant you 'd got over Pickles . |
| 20 | So when I came back to England , I consulted two elderly ladies , one a doctor , the other a spiritual medium , who work together , and who told me about the past lives I had had . |
| 21 | She was interested to find out that I liked British history ; she told me about the Medieval Circle . |
| 22 | I remember him chuckling when he told me about the big farm men who came to have their teeth extracted . |
| 23 | You know you you told me about the big boat did n't you ? |
| 24 | This is what he told me about the Batty sale . |
| 25 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's so repressed , Eddie , ’ she told me after the first time . |