Example sentences of "told [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hand half-raised he added : ‘ Do n't forget it was me as told thee about Cap'n sailing for the Indies . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If it was four in the morning , he 'd have told them what to do with their water main . ’ |
| 3 | I 've told them often enough . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I have told them not to think that lightning ca n't strike twice , ’ the former Wimbledon champion said . |
| 5 | Something which as the Argentines were in no circumstances , ah , going to settle for , ah , and anybody could have told them that , and anybody knew that . |
| 6 | But my husband always thought that my in-laws were good to me , because they never criticised me in his presence , He had told them beforehand ‘ I know this girl , what she is like , so I do n't want to hear anything about her from you . |
| 7 | I 've told them I will help with advice , but I ca n't commit one dollar , they 've got to do it themselves . ’ |
| 8 | Since they did not understand what the Sign of the Cross meant or the meaning of Our Father , he had started with a simple explanation of these and had told them how important it was to start praying together . |
| 9 | His colleague , Lord Beloff , asked why the Government had brought forward a bill without support in either House for a scheme the vice-chancellors had repeatedly told them was impossible . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've told them here I do n't need the week after next off , ’ he said , as levelly as he could . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I told them that , ’ Francis Morgan said irritably and his wife and daughter caught each other 's eye in silent agreement that he had n't told them that Angela was refusing point-black to be married from home and was insisting on the full London set-out , reception at the House of Commons , replying unanswerably when he had objected on grounds of expense that she could well afford to pay for it herself . |
| 12 | For many people the saddest aspect was the selectors ' policy of playing Randall at number three ; every fan in the country could have told them that he should have batted down the order and that exposing him so early was almost certain to fail . |
| 13 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 14 | So where , as in Morgan , defendants claim that they believed the woman was consenting , because her husband ( who was present ) had told them that she enjoyed a struggle , their case is simply that they lacked the fault element required for the crime . |
| 15 | Political honours are either an almost contemptuous gesture towards those who have kept silent when their consciences might have told them to vote against a government bill , or a reward for money or advice . |
| 16 | This is what the gaunt , red-eyed old lady had told them ; and of course Charsky , needing to draw close in some way to his dead father , wanted to try it out . |
| 17 | Mr Andrew Cammish , representing Shaun Williams , had told them : ‘ Justice must be seen to be done as well as be done and it is my duty to bring any particular irregularity to the court 's attention . |
| 18 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 19 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 20 | That 's what he 'd told them , and now they were waiting . |
| 21 | It was the first time in American history that serving officers did not dare say what their commander-in-chief had told them to do . |
| 22 | She was of course interested in his progress , but as he had already told them , a mother substitute had been appointed to give the child his direct physical care . |
| 23 | ‘ Presumably you have told them of her death . ’ |
| 24 | The Armenians — as the Palestinians have often told them — waited too long to fight for their nation . |
| 25 | It turned out the travel agent had told them their tickets were for tourist class where they would be safe . |
| 26 | Although one of the children suffered from tuberculosis , the corporation housing department had told them that they were unlikely to be housed . |
| 27 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 28 | then tell them what you 've told them ! |
| 29 | They told chairman Michael Croucher that it was only by accident they had heard of the proposals and they were concerned that no-one had told them . |
| 30 | But the unpublished manuscript , given to Tom Poole , was destroyed in 1931 by Gordon Wordsworth , who evidently regarded the subject of adultery and murder as too sordid even for the twentieth century.4 The effect on Coleridge of what Tom Poole had told them both was perhaps of most significance . |