Example sentences of "told [pers pn] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she told them about her mother 's letter he simply nodded , as if their going away was n't important . |
| 2 | She told them about her house and that the managers were calling her a thief . |
| 3 | In the evening he invited several friends to supper , and told them about his mother 's departure . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've taken the tape to the police , of course , and told them about my cat , but that 's all . |
| 5 | The workmen turned away after parents told them of their fears for the safety of local children . |
| 6 | And if she told them of her world , they , in turn , made her free in theirs . |
| 7 | We had blown a gasket and told them of our problem , but we did not declare an emergency . |
| 8 | Throughout the meal he told them of his success at bartering with the guards , or stealing from the farmers when they were sent to work on farms . |
| 9 | With the cheese Wycliffe told them of his interview with Swayne , and of Sara 's revised version of her doings the previous evening . |
| 10 | She watched their reactions as she told them of his suggestion , and saw from Joanna 's face that she was very disturbed . |
| 11 | They laughed like a couple of schoolgirls , hands fluttering to their mouths like butterflies when I told them of my encounter with the priest . |
| 12 | I told them of my plans — a little hesitantly , I admit , as they are practising Christians and I was n't sure how they would take to the idea of a DIY funeral . |
| 13 | Several students told me of their plans to go abroad to live because the party would never release its tight grip over people 's lives . |
| 14 | Over coffee and a home-baked cake they told me of their plans to marry her off . |
| 15 | Rose Mundy told me of her continual battle with overweight thighs , a problem that had been with her for as long as she could remember . |
| 16 | It was two months later that she told me of her problem and the discomfort it had previously caused her . |
| 17 | She told me of her children , of how life had changed in Oman once the old Sultan had gone and the new Sultan began to rule , of the Sultan 's mother who was ‘ covered in gold from her neck to her waist ’ and who lived in a palace in the city of Salalah . |
| 18 | A correspondent told me of her visit to a hospital mortuary to identify her 20-year-old daughter , who had been killed in a car crash . |
| 19 | An eyewitness told me of her surprise , when emerging from the Peace Hotel ( Heping Fandian ) on the Bund , at being confronted by a ‘ mass of bodies , wave upon wave of students , marching down Nanjing Road in unison and chanting slogans . |
| 20 | Steffi never misses a chance of coming to Britain , not only for tournaments , and she told me of her delight at discovering a street market on a recent visit . |
| 21 | ‘ Later , my mother told me of her terrible foreboding that she had about me the day we made that first daylight raid on Berlin . |
| 22 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 23 | Pat told me of her other' schemes for making money which , of course , never came to anything . |
| 24 | It was Joan who told me of her death , and it was probably then that I wrote to your father and we started to exchange Christmas cards . |
| 25 | ‘ I came down from Manchester two days ago , to meet my fellow archdeacons , and the Bishop told me of your husband 's application and of course that made me wish to meet him , and to meet you . |
| 26 | Now relaxed and talkative , he saw me back to the waiting taxi and told me of his ambitions as a Gaelic football player . |
| 27 | He told me of his travels from one Bed and Breakfast to another , from Galway to Sligo to Donegal . |
| 28 | He cackled as he told me of his plan . |
| 29 | There was the gentle , bearded Hans Jenisch who told me of his hesitancy before giving the orders to fire torpedoes . |
| 30 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |