Example sentences of "told me that [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 2 | Roy Dickens , one of our 400 metre runners , told me that on one occasion he and his brother Brian were shopping with their mother when a white man mugged an old lady and ran off with her handbag . |
| 3 | Sir Reginald also told me that on one occasion when there was suspicion of corruption about a certain appointment , he had called U Saw to him and said , ‘ I hear that you have accepted Rs5,000 for this appointment . |
| 4 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 5 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 6 | They told me that in four or five years , it could get worse and would get arthritic . |