Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] told me " in BNC.

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1 Aye , for so she told me .
2 So she told me , anyway . ’
3 So you told me .
4 All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report .
5 I know only he told me he had to go .
6 ( Or so he told me .
7 So he told me in the diner to which we resorted for coffee and blueberry pie .
8 So he told me to go and ask for a job there .
9 So he told me to keep clear of them .
10 Or so he told me .
11 So he told me his name , I think it 's something like Mr .
12 Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés .
13 I could see that he was rather cross with me , and soon he told me the reason .
14 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 .
15 Yesterday you told me you were a successful businesswoman , ’ he murmured , with mock seriousness .
16 Years later she told me that she did not like that book , and I do not know if that were due to a momentary impatience with it or if ( as I hope it was not ) it was a permanent feeling of dissatisfaction , for it seems to me so beautiful .
17 Years later she told me that she had regretted that I did not include some of his mother 's receipts in my life of Cavafy .
18 Later she told me : ‘ I was keeping up my homework , studying form . ’
19 But later she told me , ‘ I do worry about Ian .
20 Later she told me she was going to accept his invitation .
21 Later she told me she was frightened of him . ’
22 Years later she told me she could never remember an angry word between them .
23 Later they told me that the examination had shown that I was not yet sixteen and that I was to be sent back on the next flight . ’
24 Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’
25 ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa .
26 Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back !
27 ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her .
28 Enthusiastically he told me that he 'd always wanted to visit Morocco , live there even , and that our hashish was the best of all .
29 Now you told me how to start a sentence
30 Now he told me he wanted to end it with Susan , and he begged my help and would I come down to New Orleans . ’
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