Example sentences of "told [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In illustration of the absurdity of this ‘ scientific ’ arrogance , and teaching a lesson which is just as applicable today , he appeals to a story Gassendi told about a friend who watched a fight between a louse and a flea through a microscope . |
| 2 | His father , like John 's , had been still young when their father died , and consequently could not remember him , only the ‘ very Victorian mother ’ who brought them up , and the tales she told about him . |
| 3 | Then I told about the tales the neighbours were telling about her Mum and her men friends . |
| 4 | So a dramatic story like the one told about the Carib is clearly not adequate : it over explains what is really a rather small difference . |
| 5 | She told about the shame , and the heartbreaking decision she was forced to make under duress . |
| 6 | At the end , when she told about the enterprising boys ' attempt to send a sample ‘ nugget ’ — of worthless pyrites — to the mines department for assaying , Faye actually smiled , and quickly Belinda went on to think of more stories from her outback childhood . |
| 7 | Rather shamefacedly , he told about the library . |
| 8 | That brief story you told about how my physical appearance might affect my social interactions and my social interactions might affect my psychic make up . |
| 9 | There was a story he told about the man who came to his flat and said in a gruff voice , ‘ Come on then — let's get on with it then . ’ |
| 10 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 11 | None of the banter Lou heard , however , compared with the stories he told about mutual acquaintances — sometimes in the embarrassed and blushing presence of the people about whom he talked . |
| 12 | Hawk had seen it told as a series of pictures on buffalo hides . |
| 13 | He gives up a day job to write down the stories — of the Secret Mountain , the Sound that could be Seen , the Slow Children and the Magic Duvet — that he once told for free to a rabble of offspring and other kin and friends . |
| 14 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 15 | An incident at dinner on Sunday night became part of the Reverend Mr Grant 's conversational furniture , a story he told for many years later . |
| 16 | The story of railways in Wales told through superb visual displays plus ten steam locomotives of the Wales Railway Centre . |
| 17 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 18 | Inspired by Dante 's Divine Comedy and the sad tale of his love fur Beatrice and by medieval ballads about a knight saving a damsel in distress , their works told of lovers in search of a beloved , a metaphor for the ‘ artist in search of his muse ’ . |
| 19 | Reports from the Commando units around the village told of determined German counter attacks during the night with many casualties . |
| 20 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 21 | Paul looked down the road to where distant lights told of the approach of the bus . |
| 22 | The Hartlepool Mail told of one emergency board meeting hastily convened on a Skipton pavement . |
| 23 | The message behind the television and radio campaign was reinforced by a mother who told of her only daughter being killed three years ago by a drunken motorist . |
| 24 | Contacted by telephone early yesterday when fighting was still under way , a young American couple told of how they crouched on the floor of their appartment , armed with their own guns , terrified that reports of the Battalions roaming suburban areas would mean the thugs appearing at their door . |
| 25 | The doctor also told of a four-hour meeting with a group of Irish throwers , who asked his advice on how to improve the efficiency of their drug programme . |
| 26 | ’ At Shotesham there are delicate plaster ceilings and a frieze of wheat-ears and hops in the entrance hall , which told of Robert Fellowes ' surrounding acres . |
| 27 | At the end of one recent service , a message from a clairvoyant told of three men suffering from chest pains ; not three but four sufferers stepped up to the altar to be healed . |
| 28 | If the Joseph story told of the healing of conflict among brothers , it told also of the proper fulfilment of the bond between father and son . |
| 29 | Information filtering back home from soldiers on leave told of the unparalleled barbarity of the ideological warfare on the eastern Front , where Soviet commissars were being shot on capture and Jews massacred in their thousands . |
| 30 | It was striking that many of the girls I spoke to with anorexia or bulimia ( an eating disorder similar to anorexia , but in which sufferers make themselves sick or take laxatives to keep their weight down ; both methods are extremely dangerous to health ) told of an incident ( which they often insist was small or insignificant ) of sexual harassment or abuse which marked the start of their body obsession . |