Example sentences of "told me [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	He gripped her gloved arm fastidiously in his gloved fingers and said , confidentially , ‘ He told me not to mention his name .
2	Ca n't remember if you told me not to mention it to you or not that was it that it was supposed to be a private conversation , I ca n't remember .
3	If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it .
4	He told me not to open my mouth to either of you and Una until such time when he would tell all three of you himself .
5	He told me not to put myself into my work , and not to poeticise things ( I am a poet ! ) .
6	They told me not to move my head or they would blow it off . ’
7	‘ Josh told me not to disturb him .
8	and Richard goes no Rebecca just told me not to do it , so you should n't
9	Who told me not to do it , put salt into the water then ?
10	He said — he said he should n't know himself really , but one of the people there , the tour leader , told him and told him not to say anything , and Cedric ’ — she breathed deeply again — ‘ told me , and told me not to say anything . ’
11	He told me not to say anything so I did n't ?
12	I asked what was the problem and they told me not to bother my pretty head with scum .
13	She looked away so that Trent would n't see her misery : ‘ He told me not to tell anyone . ’
14	it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know .
15	She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't !
16	‘ You were drunk when you told me where to see her .
17	‘ Declan told me how to disable it , but not how to mend it .
18	‘ Ray told me never to lose my individuality , always to believe in what I did best .
19	As her parting shot she told me never to phone her at this time of the night again .

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