Example sentences of "[pers pn] [coord] told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my master summoned me and told me you had written to him , at first I was angry with you for betraying my and I blessed you . |
| 2 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 3 | Stopped me and told me he 'd let him go to St Francis Xavier 's . |
| 4 | Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon 's death , but what about Yanto and Nigger . |
| 5 | Just before I went on my first furlough after five years ' service , the Bishop of Rangoon , Norman Tubbs , called me and told me that on my return from furlough he wanted me to take over the training of the Burmese clergy . |
| 6 | When my elder son was born and I was having difficulty in breast-feeding him , my mother sympathised with me and told me that , just after I was born , she had had an abscess on one of her breasts and found feeding me something of an ordeal . |
| 7 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 8 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 9 | I wanted to sit there and ask him all about it , but he finished questioning me and told me to leave . |
| 10 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 11 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 12 | They laughed at me and told me my fingers were no use for that work , which was true . |
| 13 | If you knew about the letter , you could just have phoned me and told me not to open it . |
| 14 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 15 | A friend of mine who is a car trader rang me and told me that he had found the car I was looking for . |
| 16 | ‘ The reason I 'm here is because my brother phoned me and told me your cousin was in urgent need of a tutor . |
| 17 | Ven exclaimed — and very nearly made her drop when he went on , ‘ One way and another , woman , I 've been interested in you since I pulled up my car behind yours , and you batted those gorgeous green eyes at me and told me that your car would n't go . ’ |
| 18 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 19 | Sharon stopped me and told me . |
| 20 | ‘ Jeff told me he 'd had a word with you about me and told you I had lots of experience teaching English to foreign students and that you wanted me to come and do the job . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We devised some pretty crude mechanisms for extracting cash from the operating companies every quarter — we did n't even bother to classify it as dividend or interest or repayment of loans , we just took the cash away from them and told them to manage with less . |
| 22 | ‘ All her friends were knocked sideways when she rang them and told them she had got spliced . |
| 23 | Silver waved the map in front of them and told them they were stupid . |
| 24 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 25 | But Mark was down ; he wrote to you and told you how it was from his point of view , with his perspective . |
| 26 | it was someone else that told me but told me not to tell anyone and I had to beg it out of him cos I just wanted to know . |
| 27 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 28 | Then Pasternak 's office called him and told him that he had flunked the test . |
| 29 | They then drew alongside him and told him again to put his hands on the handlebars . |
| 30 | I sat with him and told him basically what to do , ’ says Charman . |