Example sentences of "she told [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And being as usual in the mood to get things right she told her a Chinese dragon story . |
| 2 | While she filled the tank of the lady 's car she told her the legend of the Brownies ' Bridge . |
| 3 | She told her the plain truth . |
| 4 | She told me no one seemed to be wearing jumpers with the car 's name on them , so I made her one without charge . |
| 5 | She told me no one was allowed to see him . |
| 6 | She told me a policewoman had been round and announced that Graham Mills had been found murdered . |
| 7 | As she did this , she told me a chant I had to say over and over again . |
| 8 | Then she erm she told me a lie this time as well ! |
| 9 | SHE TOLD me the story , but not before she had advised me that she was absolutely scandalized . |
| 10 | where it , she said it was too big for her and er she wanted something smaller , with a swap , well I did n't swap for the reason mine was overlooking the lake , it was in a better position , and er , then she told me the reason she wanted to swap cos er , she said it was too big cos her husband had died , I started to speak to her about when God 's kingdom comes on the earth , these dead ones will come back , these loved ones |
| 11 | for Christmas , and it was delicious the way her mother made it so she started it with me writing it down , see , and she told me the ingredients and then she said you brews the ginger I thought |
| 12 | I a lot , cos I remember erm when Claire was I got a really formal invitation to something and I asked Claire how you were supposed to reply and she told me the exact wording of how you should reply and I just looked at her I looked at her and I said I 'm not bloody writing that . |
| 13 | ILL-MANNERED Tories booed , hissed and slow-handclapped Brighton 's Labour mayor as she told them the hard facts of life in Major 's Britain . |
| 14 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 15 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 16 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 17 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 18 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 19 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 20 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 21 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 22 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 23 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 24 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 25 | So it 's very likely she told you a few fibs . |
| 26 | This was n't the way that she wanted things to be , she told herself a little frantically . |
| 27 | Sometimes she told herself the postcards , or exercise book scrawls , were messages to Daniel , but one should never , she considered , ignore surface meanings in favour of implications and the damned things were addressed to her , to Frederica . |
| 28 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 29 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |