Example sentences of "told i that [pron] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I telephoned the prison , and Prison Officer Draycott told me that nobody had telephoned from there . |
| 2 | Younis told me that they 'd taken my picture because I 'd hidden it . |
| 3 | Work-place acquaintance can safely be assumed to explain most of these weddings — though as it happens , two of the surviving women compositors , one who married a compositor from another printing office , and one whose husband worked at Bartholomew 's the map-printers , told me that they had met their future husbands at social gatherings unconnected with work . |
| 4 | But managers told me that they had learned from the experience . |
| 5 | After that came my Marx and Schweitzer phase but I started getting greedy and wanting them all rolled into one and then somebody told me that we 've got to learn to love ourselves , so I tried that but it seemed a bit selfish . |
| 6 | By legs told me that I had skied more that day than in a week on previous holidays . |
| 7 | ‘ I invited you because your mother told me that you 'd realised there were more things in life than work — at long last , ’ Simon said pithily , ‘ and were in the market for some socialising . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I came last night , but they told me that you 'd gone out to dinner with friends . |
| 9 | Just , just let me mention that you , you told me that you 'd gone to Y S L , |
| 10 | And you told me that you 'd destroyed the picture . ’ |
| 11 | Oh it were your mam , I think your mam told me that you 'd got it out . |
| 12 | ‘ Considering you told me that you 'd taken supplies on in Oban and that you managed perfectly well all of yesterday , and that your boat is.probably stiff with tins and even bottles- ’ |
| 13 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 14 | I was gon na say er somebody told me that he 'd left and I thought it was you cos nobody would . |
| 15 | Afterwards he told me that he 'd thought I was going to start a revolution there and then . |
| 16 | And the first letter told me that he 'd got stomach upset . |
| 17 | He told me that he 'd got a good home , or he 'd had a good home , and he just I said why do n't you live there ? |
| 18 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 19 | It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’ |
| 20 | He told me that he had said to Ivy that he hoped between the three of us we might make head or tail of it , and she said , ‘ Well , we are three intelligent people , so I ca n't see why we should have any difficulty . ’ |
| 21 | When he told me that he had inherited the cardinal 's robes of his predecessor , Cardinal Heenan , and I asked if they fitted , he said , ‘ No . |
| 22 | As he told me that he had killed perhaps ten , eleven or twelve people during the course of the war . |
| 23 | She stopped and bit her lip , then , seeing Sophie 's colour rising , she added , ‘ Edward told me that he had seen you and Robert kissing out on the balcony . ’ |
| 24 | The Chief-Corporal to whom I had given my sisters ' addresses at Canjuers was there , and he told me that he had sent my oldest sister a photograph of himself in a tank and one of his apartment in La Rochelle . |
| 25 | He told me that he had fallen into the water with Compeyson , and then been hit by the ship . |
| 26 | Brother George told me that he had persuaded Eliot to include the passage in The Waste Land about the seduction of the ‘ bored and tired ’ typist by the small house-agent 's clerk , because he ( George ) thought that the young men ought to know a little more about the facts of life . |
| 27 | He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed . |
| 28 | A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for . |
| 29 | He told me that he had come to the Legion so that he could kill people without going to prison . |
| 30 | A first-year physics student told me that he had thought of transferring to an arts subject , maybe psychology , in the first few weeks , because : |