Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 2 | Then I told about the tales the neighbours were telling about her Mum and her men friends . |
| 3 | One story of how a local university academic had come into the police station to report his car missing , because he had forgotten where he had parked it , was repeated with relish ; while another which I told on my return from university satisfied these deeply held views of the ‘ intellectual 's ’ practical ineptitude : |
| 4 | Letters from one of them told of Mohnyin , another BCMS centre , where the nurses from the Mandalay Children 's Hospital had settled . |
| 5 | WHAT a moving tale of true grit you told of Coronation Street 's Lynne Perrie . |
| 6 | That brief story you told about how my physical appearance might affect my social interactions and my social interactions might affect my psychic make up . |
| 7 | And then she told of the particularly treacherous winter that they had had to endure . |
| 8 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 9 | She told of the family 's ‘ sombre year ’ in the five-minute address which had already appeared in The Sun after the newspaper obtained a copy allegedly from a BBC employee . |
| 10 | She told of one man who was harangued for ninety minutes at a time until he had a nervous breakdown and quit . |
| 11 | In it , she told of her two years ' hiding from the Nazis in a secret room in her father 's Amsterdam warehouse . |
| 12 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 13 | She told of the one time when the weeping stopped . |
| 14 | Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip . |
| 15 | She told at least one of her oldest friends : ‘ That 's it . |
| 16 | His father , like John 's , had been still young when their father died , and consequently could not remember him , only the ‘ very Victorian mother ’ who brought them up , and the tales she told about him . |
| 17 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 18 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 19 | And they grew when she told in another interview how she could live on prawns , salad and water , and found eating ‘ a drag ’ . |
| 20 | He is the son of the late Dr. William Nkomo , the African revolutionary leader whose story we told in the film ‘ A Man for All People ’ . |
| 21 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 22 | But away from the lenses they told of torture , rape and mass-executions . |
| 23 | They told of the movements of relics : the bringing of the relics of St Ouen to the court of King Edgar ; of the king 's gift of them to the monastery ; of Queen Emma 's gift of the arm of St Bartholomew ; of the translation of the body of St Elphege ; and so on . |
| 24 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 25 | They told of the agony of walking on feet deformed by infected open wounds , the pain of trying to jam gloves on fingers skinned by frostbite and the tedium of the never-ending white waste . |
| 26 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 27 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 28 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 29 | All this he told to Glorious and his friends . |
| 30 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |