Example sentences of "[noun prp] told [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spicer told him the news and asked him if he would like a local caddie to be booked . |
| 2 | Robson said yesterday : ‘ Bobby told me the atmosphere got to certain players last time . |
| 3 | Under question , Edward told me a little more about Laura 's past than she herself was willing to volunteer . |
| 4 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 5 | Yeah Sue told me the other day that er she wo n't come out till she 's , she 's right cold . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | And last night Doyle told me the truth behind the bizarre and evil campaign . |
| 8 | Liese told me the two centres of the chi — the life force — were located an inch or two above and below the navel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When his wife returned , Linkworth told her the same believable story and she accepted it completely . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a fine idea , but Mrs. Olinton told me the other day that Mr. Olinton would n't lend any of his buildings to Scouts or Guides or Brownies or Cubs . |
| 12 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 13 | So Ruth told her the truth , but not quite the whole truth since she kept Dick 's name out of it . |
| 14 | Ellie told him the truth . |
| 15 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 16 | Sheriff Paterson told her the charity had been devastated as a result of her actions . |
| 17 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 18 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 19 | When Stephen told me the name of the submarine captain , I recognized it . |
| 20 | ‘ What I ca n't understand is that Helen told me the same thing . |
| 21 | Ellwood asked a lot of questions ; Piper told him a great deal about how the universe was ordered by the laws of music . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't see what difference it makes , people 's ages , ’ he said when Carrie told him the girls in her class thought this odd . |
| 23 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 24 | On the drive back to London , Quinn was silent as Sam told him the outcome of her trip to Washington and the decision of the White House to let him have his head so long as she went with him . |
| 25 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 26 | ‘ Philip told me the splendid news , Eileen . |
| 27 | There are the scribes and the Pharisees , and they began grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and Jesus told them a parable . |
| 28 | And as we heard this morning Jesus told us a parable about a mustard seed , although it 's small it grows into quite a large shrub . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're a genius Lissa , ’ Adam told her a few minutes later . |
| 30 | The pater told me his former guardians had frittered away the money his father left him , and Harry told me the amount of the salary Mr Harvey pays him . |