Example sentences of "told me that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was touched when my dad told me that every night he stood on the back doorstep and said goodnight to John . |
| 2 | MH : I remember somebody told me that a member of the public asked that question and was told it could be either five minutes or 40 years ! |
| 3 | Our GP told me that a drug called Dexamethazone , although in no way a cure , would probably help Nigel 's state of mind by reducing the pressure of the growth on his brain . |
| 4 | Simon told me that a school |
| 5 | Seddon also told me that a team of telephone engineers had already started work to improve the service to Foulness . |
| 6 | ‘ My father told me that a woman 's body odour was the sexiest smell in the world . ’ |
| 7 | At a bridge above the fall a friendly sign said " Keep out , private property " , while another sign told me that a bull was loose with cattle in the field I had to cross . |
| 8 | Posi then told me that a comm-call was coming in from the Famlio ship , but I told her to ignore it . |
| 9 | ( A screw told me that a prison regulation stated that there should only be two chairs for every three women . ) |
| 10 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
| 11 | I opened the front door , and the merest sniff — choking and sulphuric — told me that a chimney was on fire , and it was n't ours . |
| 12 | You told me that the porn tape you use is a hangover from the old Inspiral Carpets . |
| 13 | Because of disquiet among ordinary members there , George Devlin , Vice-Chairman of the company , says that they wish to retain the atmosphere of a private members ' club , while delightful Chairman Michael Broke , told me that the plan is to raise standards even higher . |
| 14 | A man with a clipboard told me that the cutting of the tenons is a dangerous practice . |
| 15 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 16 | He told me that the oxygen mask had pulled away from my face some , and that I was probably just blacking out . |
| 17 | The retired milkman , from whom I had borrowed the can , told me that the dent was the result of an accident with a bicycle . |
| 18 | When I was in performance of my duties , he distinctly told me that the Prince would be poisoned . |
| 19 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 20 | Mrs Harker , an old resident of the village and a member of the feast committee , told me that the tradition of burning Bartle has been handed down orally from one generation to the next . |
| 21 | They told me that the girl 's father had been as coy as any nineteenth-century English maiden . |
| 22 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 23 | A look at the sea below me told me that the tide was still low , though presumably it had begun to turn . |
| 24 | A number of people told me that the film The Exorcist was positive because ( they thought ) it put the fear of the Devil into people . |
| 25 | The exact way in which they had failed to comply with the regulations is unclear ; a representative of the Education Authority told me that the school has re-opened on a ‘ technicality ’ , because the School Council had not been consulted before the closure ; people in Village told me that the Education Authority had not consulted anyone in the community before-hand , a bigger breach of the regulations . |
| 26 | He told me that the way I felt was quite normal for someone in my situation ’ |
| 27 | She told me that the trial of the young man was to take place the following month and that she was , of course , the only witness . |
| 28 | Because they told me that the assessment will be made by the Child Support Agency who would then pass it over to the Income Support Agency who would then take them off Income Support . |
| 29 | and told me that the problem was electric |
| 30 | A Stourbridge resident working in Kidderminster library subsequently told me that The Slug was the nickname for the Stourbridge Town branch train . |