Example sentences of "[pron] told " in BNC.
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1 | I wrote back , Paz said , I told him , Dada dead as dodo eat your hat . |
2 | I told him , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) it was people like him who kept the idea of art going , kept the opera houses of the world open , kept the bookshops of the world open , they ought to take you out and shoot you , I said to him . |
3 | At least the telly has n't yet cottoned on to the dogs , I told him , but he said in Mexico it had . |
4 | Goldberg 's face when I told him , he wrote . |
5 | I told him , Between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
6 | I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it . |
7 | I told you , between junctions seventeen and eighteen . |
8 | I told you , I said to him , I just pulled in and heaved them out . |
9 | You 'd have got better anyway , I told him . |
10 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
11 | I told him all that left me cold . |
12 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
13 | It will have to be installed either by a window or in the middle of the largest room you 've got , I told her . |
14 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
15 | Goldberg delighted when I told him about the gauze and the draught , he wrote . |
16 | It may not be ready in time , I told her , there 's still a long way to go . |
17 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
18 | I do n't live in London , I told him . |
19 | Besides , I told him , I like sewers . |
20 | I told him I was cutting down on lunch . |
21 | I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent . |
22 | It does n't concern me , I told him . |
23 | Again I told him why . |
24 | Of course all these things are relative , I told him , of course if you take the long perspective there 's never anywhere to move forward to and all advance is illusory , but in the short perspective there comes a point when there is no option except to abandon . |
25 | I bet if I told those Germans downstairs what I knew about Father 's job they 'd sit up and pay attention . |
26 | ‘ They 're not my guests , ’ I told her . |
27 | ‘ Well , like I told the foreign gentleman , there was dancing in the sitting room , and this Mrs Heatherington-Scott she was dancing with Mr Merrivale . ’ |
28 | I told him they danced very intimate-like , with her twigging his ear and whispering in it , and dancing closer and closer . |
29 | Bob blushed at his unaccustomed prominence , but said promptly : ‘ Four , like I told the foreign gentleman . ’ |
30 | ‘ Keep your mouth shut , ’ I told myself . |