Example sentences of "[adv] told me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he suddenly told me to fetch the chopper from the cellar . |
| 2 | But somebody so told me aye and I said that was a funny name or was it else 's then . |
| 3 | I do n't think a person told I do n't think a person told to apologize is n't rea really an apology so I think there must be a reason why you did n't and so told me on Sunday why you did n't . |
| 4 | Well perhaps , perhaps the so and so , so told me . |
| 5 | Later I asked Mala the original of that unlikely nickname , but she merely told me , with a faint blush , that is was none of my business . |
| 6 | Bernard more or less told me . |
| 7 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents only told me a bit about them , ’ said Creggan , ‘ and I only saw one once when a pair came close to my homesite and my mother attacked them . |
| 9 | Cobalt said wryly : ‘ Yes , and he only told me about it because I paid him . ’ |
| 10 | Well he , he appreciated at the previous table show on the sixth of October and that was a case when it was always you know , because Danny only told me on that night that he could come . |
| 11 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 12 | No , she only told me that the other day yeah she is |
| 13 | Terry rightly told me I went down the wrong I was looking for names rather than the dots . |
| 14 | When ATP staged their spectacular split from the Men 's Tennis Council in 1989 , however , their officials constantly told me , ‘ This has nothing to do with money . |
| 15 | ‘ No , no , I now rank as an important contact , a senior opinion-former , or so she flatteringly told me . |
| 16 | Erm then er I introduced somebody on the seventeenth for this teaching post , for the sewing club which Noel unofficially told me and Donald also rang up and said that we were going to get the money so I I 've already employed somebody , I have n't got the letter yet . |
| 17 | They do when they came in , and they want the stall made like this , and they would say , you know , well you know , I 'm paying you to finish that off , you know , how , your next , your next priority to do is this , and they eventually told me what they wanted , and you know , you get on with it . |
| 18 | An expressed desire for rigidly determined geographical units separated from a despised neighbour occurs again and again in my fieldnotes , and is clearly illustrated in a note made in 1981 , when a superintendent in a somewhat remote subdivision laughingly told me : |
| 19 | The magistrate told me I would have to sort it out with the council , Rotherham M.B.C. , and they finally told me I would have to pay them £45 . |
| 20 | ‘ And I thought he was the one who killed her , too , ’ said William , ‘ when they finally told me . ’ |
| 21 | But it was n't Jozef who finally told me the truth — which of the three suspects had taken the pieces of silver . |
| 22 | You despised me for that and finally told me you hated me . |
| 23 | " Stay in Bideford — and you can have a job for life , " my editor generously told me . |
| 24 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 25 | Sitting in Casey 's office with a group of people sometime in the autumn of 1985 , John McMahon , his deputy , suddenly said : ‘ You wo n't believe what Bud McFarlane just told me at the White House . ’ |
| 26 | The guv'nor just told me . |
| 27 | Something that Eva just told me . ’ |
| 28 | This girl just told me about this Polo factory outlet up near Canada … you can get a $200 knitted sweater for , like $20 — that 's outrageous ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The lads just told me I should put more water in my whisky , ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ He just told me ‘ You have n't got a job and that 's it . ’ |