Example sentences of "[noun] told i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what the agent told me when I was recruited . |
| 2 | Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Before she left , the PM told me how pleased she was that you were so frank . |
| 4 | One of his poems had been published , he said , in The New Yorker by Howard Moss , the Poetry Editor , who — though I did not know it until Dana told me later — was a well-known homosexual . |
| 5 | Alan says : ’ I was amazed at the advice I received because their Mitchell Philpott told me not to transfer at least for the time being . |
| 6 | Quintin Hailsham told me later : ‘ When I first read the report my hair stood on end , and at my age that takes some doing . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Eleanor told me how she had visited you and your mother a little while ago . ’ |
| 8 | One leading South African critic told me yesterday : ‘ Jimmy had two poor domestic seasons here prior to the World Cup . |
| 9 | ‘ Josh told me not to disturb him . |
| 10 | Josh told me once , that 's where Tommy went . |
| 11 | As Brian Clough told me when I met him on the top of the Little Elm bus earlier this season — we were both going to check out Little Elm Intaflora 's young Dutch forward , Kylie Van Der Graaf — ‘ Sadly , young man , football is like a football . ’ |
| 12 | Martin Fleischmann told me how over a whiskey in Pons ' kitchen he remarked , ‘ It 's a billion to one chance , shall we do it ? ’ and Pons replied , ‘ Let's have a go . ’ |
| 13 | Fleischmann told me more about the background to his work with Pons . |
| 14 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |
| 15 | But if this was a positive factor to hold on to , the story told me more . |
| 16 | Harvey told me how each part of the computer was named after a section of the human brain : the Medulla , Pons and Midbrain . |
| 17 | More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not sure , but Edwin told me once that there was less than a dozen pictures altogether . |
| 19 | After my waters broke I had an uncontrollable urge to push but the midwife told me not to . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , my Mum told me not to let boys fondle me or kiss me now I 've started me periods , otherwise , if I did , I 'd soon be having a baby . ’ |
| 21 | Mum told me not to be so silly . |
| 22 | Mum told me off ! |
| 23 | Yet a taxi driver told me recently that more money should be spent on Aids than on dementia because more people would die from it . |
| 24 | ‘ My GP told me not to worry and to drink more fluids . |
| 25 | Oh , yes , Taggy told me how you have been working your fingers to the bone . ’ |
| 26 | Alan told me how old they were but I 'm a bit vague about kids , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 27 | The council told me just to stay there the weekend . |
| 28 | Jennifer Batten told me when I made the typically British talk-about-the-weather opening gambit to our transatlantic ‘ phone conversation . |
| 29 | I 'm not sure exactly where they 're stored , but Tiare told me once that her father ’ — that sounded an odd description of Gauguin — ‘ had given her mother instructions on how to protect them . |
| 30 | A former Minister of the Republic of Ireland told me recently that sovereignty did not mean the same for the people of Ireland as it did for us . |