Example sentences of "told me [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm not anti-drink , I 'm anti the abuse of drink and the hassle that it causes , ’ he told me during an interview carried out in one of the three plush hotels he owns . |
| 2 | Someone else told me of a friend who brought her ninety-year-old mother to visit her . |
| 3 | ‘ After missing the P-38 , a friend in Fresno , California rang me up and told me of a Corsair that was being advertised for sale in the American journal Trade-a-Plane . |
| 4 | She then told me of a child she had had who had been still-born . |
| 5 | A friend once told me of a Northen Ireland tour back in the 1970s , by a group of bogus Wombles . |
| 6 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 7 | A producer recently told me of a quote he was given to use a piece of music from the '60s — for 30 seconds it came to £40,000 ! |
| 8 | Before my mother died she told me of a letter to me , held in the bank , which I was to receive on her death . |
| 9 | Tara , a fourteen-year-old , told me of a sequence of events which , her friends agreed , was hardly an exception : |
| 10 | He told me of a visit he 'd made to California . |
| 11 | During a recent visit to an old people 's home , the officer in charge told me of the efforts she had to make to prevent the local children from taunting and mocking the residents-often through the windows . |
| 12 | He told me of the way the rivers were kept permanently netted for fish , of the illnesses associated with la Sologne , and of its politics . |
| 13 | He later told me of the adventure he had walking round the high netting accompanied by an airman on the other side of the wire . |
| 14 | Bill Riffkind , a close friend of Sam 's , later told me of the fight . |
| 15 | The boy found me at the sweet shop across the street , and told me of the drama . |
| 16 | He said he was a reporter and he told me of the death of the King , the news had just come through . |
| 17 | One banking employee told me of the demise of her bank branch . |
| 18 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 19 | Later , over dinner , Mrs Knelle spiritedly told me of the sensation around Lough Corrib when President Reagan had stayed at Ashford Castle . |
| 20 | Allie told me on the phone that Ted fed her , coming in and saying , ' 'Ere , Marge , have a nice bit of fish with some bread and butter . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So you told me on the phone . ’ |
| 22 | No , she to she told me on the phone . |
| 23 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 24 | Douglas now your background here is mainly erm er retail face to face but I can also read into and what er this and what you told me on the phone that there 's erm quote a lot of sales as well . |
| 25 | He told me on the phone that Dawn will be leaving in a fortnight 's time and they have n't found a veterinary nurse to take her place . |
| 26 | Tremayne came to collect me from the hospital afterwards and told me on the way to Shellerton that Mackie had got through the court ordeal bravely . |
| 27 | As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned . |
| 28 | You know what he told me on the way home ? |
| 29 | They told me on the 'phone that you were not wounded . |
| 30 | I could n't get it out of them who had paid for her , but old Alex the cleaner told me on the side : Boswell , Slim Boswell . ’ |