Example sentences of "they told [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told me on the 'phone that you were not wounded . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 3 | They told me at the hospital that you 've worked with him in the past , so I thought you might be able to help me with my general enquiries . ’ |
| 4 | Yes , indeed , they told me at the tabac , the old building had stood until a year or so ago . |
| 5 | ‘ They told me at the desk downstairs that you were here . ’ |
| 6 | When they told me at work she 'd bought that , I was , cos they lived up at Green Lane I thought my God he 'd have they 've picked a a bad spot there cos there 's no flood protection at all there . |
| 7 | Over coffee and a home-baked cake they told me of their plans to marry her off . |
| 8 | ‘ We 're sisters and spinsters , ’ they told me with a laugh ; but , more importantly , members of The Waterford and District Friends of Ancient Monuments Society . |
| 9 | After explaining the nature of my quest , they told me about their own favourite legal high . |
| 10 | I remember the day when they told me about it . |
| 11 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 12 | They told me about you , but I expect they forgot t' other way round . ’ |
| 13 | And I cos I was amazed they told me about this salt rubbish ! |
| 14 | Somewhere , they told me in Nairn , is a hawthorn tree carbon-dated 1372 which I must find , because Boswell mentions it ; the ‘ hawthorn-tree , which rises like a wooden pillar through the rooms of the castle ; for , by a strange conceit , the walls have been built around it ’ . |
| 15 | They talked to her about her ancestors , and about the Bright Palace which they called Teamhair in their soft voices , and they told her about the battles and the people who had made Ireland magical and marvellous and richer in folklore than any country could ever be . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're looking a bit peaky , ’ they told her at work , and she tried desperately to conceal her fatigue . |
| 17 | She walked as far as the cafeteria on her ward — they told her to — and walking was a strange bouncing glide . |
| 18 | Put in isolation , she washed when they told her to , ate what they gave her . |
| 19 | Then they told him about Lefevre . |
| 20 | " Are you at school then ? " he asked , and they told him about their two boarding-schools . |
| 21 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 22 | They told him in no uncertain terms that he could not take a holiday whenever he felt like it . |
| 23 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 24 | Anyway … they told us to hand in all our Arctic kit , fur parkas , white camouflage , etc . ’ |
| 25 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 26 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 27 | She said : it must be what they told us about . |
| 28 | They told us within three days of your signing on . |
| 29 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 30 | Did the things they told you about the ad or the product correspond at all to what you hoped they would get out of it ? |