Example sentences of "[noun] told [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sudden drop in the wind told her the worst was over . |
| 2 | Sharmi told me the story : |
| 3 | ‘ The vice-minister of the atomic energy industry told me a nuclear plant was being built to cope with the power shortage , ’ said the defector . |
| 4 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 5 | The card told me the rest . |
| 6 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 7 | Under question , Edward told me a little more about Laura 's past than she herself was willing to volunteer . |
| 8 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 9 | ‘ Far from it ! ’ she said thickly , but her racing pulses told him a different story , and she knew her desire for him was growing stronger with each moment they spent together . |
| 10 | It was quieter , with few shops , not one of them interesting , and restaurants which opened with optimistic flourishes and invitations but where , after a few weeks , you could see the desolate owner standing in the doorway wondering where he 'd gone wrong ; his eyes told you the area was n't going to revive in his lifetime . |
| 11 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 12 | When I was researching my book , The Sporting Gentleman 's Gentleman , stories from Scottish keepers , stalkers and gillies , Jimmy Ross of Rothes told me a different tale about Arthur Wood and his ‘ wee Blue Charm ’ . |
| 13 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 14 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 15 | Her employers told her the work was too stressful for someone in her condition . |
| 16 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 17 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 18 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 19 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |
| 20 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , Mum told me a couple of days go , and that he was working at OBEX . |
| 22 | Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve . |
| 23 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 24 | ‘ But the driver told her the cost had risen by 1p the previous day . |
| 25 | ‘ After a few minutes an embarrassed train driver told us the man who should have unlocked the gate had not turned up . ’ |
| 26 | The warden 's wife at the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve told me the no doubt apocryphal tale of a traveller in Northern Canada laboriously taking down phonetic notes from an Inuit pointing to various landmarks in his territory . |
| 27 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 28 | ( Peru : the very name arose from a misunderstanding on the part of the Spaniards when Indians told them the name of a river : originally , it was known simply as ‘ New Castille ’ . ) |
| 29 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 30 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |