Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | First he told them to lay off me , and when they sneered and said what would happen if they did n't , he merely replied , ‘ A series of inexplicable misfortunes . ’ |
| 3 | I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank . |
| 4 | The doctors told them to talk to him as much as possible and to play tapes of his favourite music , but Ken Lomax did not respond to their long , rambling , one-way conversations or the endless repetitions of his favourite country and western music . |
| 5 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 6 | He told them to go amongst the people of the land and offer them their service , to defend Minginish instead of conquering it ; for the most earth a man ever needs is what is piled in his grave . |
| 7 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 8 | I 've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball . |
| 9 | " Tom Rooney told me to beware of you , not to end up in bed with you . |
| 10 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 11 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 12 | ‘ Pertwee told me to wait for Charlie Hatton , ’ Cullam said . |
| 13 | Then he told me to wait for him after I had visited my father , and said that he would try to think of a way to help me without arousing any suspicion . |
| 14 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
| 15 | Told me to wait for the horse to lift its tail . ’ |
| 16 | Sister told me to wait outside her open duty-room door and watch all that was going on . |
| 17 | A powerful urge told me to return to the station and get on the train back to Jamila 's place . |
| 18 | When I caught up with Jean-Claude , he told me to return to the cottage alone . |
| 19 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 20 | He told me to watch for a seaman with one leg and to let him know the moment when a man like that appeared . |
| 21 | Told me to sit on his knee . |
| 22 | ‘ Jesus told me to go to France . |
| 23 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | ‘ The pack told me to apply to John Burrows , the customer services manager , to reserve an interview time , if I was still interested in a position with Seacat , ’ said Ms Garcia , who has worked in the travel business since leaving school . |
| 26 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 27 | After a silence he 'd risen greyly to his feet to leave and told me to look after myself . |
| 28 | ‘ She told me to look after it when she died . ’ |
| 29 | He told me to look after Cathy carefully , and left at once . |
| 30 | But he told me to think upon it and he would come back for an answer . ’ |