Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] told i [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 2 | What actually happened was my a friend of mine or really was a friend of mine for a short time , he he was in the company when I joined , and er after two months he told me he was leaving . |
| 3 | There was a printed card fixed above the doorbell which told me I had about ten minutes before visiting times were up . |
| 4 | Afterwards in the pub someone told me he would probably be sent down . |
| 5 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 6 | At that first meeting he told me something about himself . |
| 7 | This copper said the Tunnel Mob 's bin done fer a ware'ouse job in Wappin'. 'E told me they was still lookin' fer two more blokes who was involved but they do n't know who they was . ’ |
| 8 | I had a friend who told me she fell for a boy when she woke up in the morning and realised he did n't snore . |
| 9 | But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers . |
| 10 | I was so needy at the time that I think I would have gone off with the first person who told me I was attractive and showed my affection . |
| 11 | I 'd done my crying for him the day they told me he was dead . |
| 12 | And when I came across people who told me I must be , at best , gullible to believe in metaphysics ( and why did n't I rejoin their random , meaningless reality ? ) , then I had invited them into my world . |
| 13 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 14 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 15 | It was Bob who told me he booked we our union normally stay at the Claremont you see . |
| 16 | I arrived late at night so I had nowhere to go , but I met a greenkeeper who told me I could sleep in the greenkeeper 's hut on the course . |
| 17 | After the receptionist picked herself off the floor she told me I had better call in the fire brigade . ’ |
| 18 | To conclude the story I do n't know who pegged the match but afterwards I talked to one of the locals who told me they never peg the stretch where I was . |
| 19 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 20 | One thing she told me I mean , Janine will tell you herself . |
| 21 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 22 | Dragged myself to the doctor who told me I had to expect such things at my age and prescribed vitamin pills . |
| 23 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 24 | Now was one of the biggest bakeries in Edinburgh you told me it was er three stories and each story had a different function . |
| 25 | ‘ At my house you told me you did n't drink . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't it about time you told me what really happened back at your flat in Radnor Walk ? ’ |
| 27 | the first time you told me your age I went |
| 28 | By the time you told me I was adopted , I would n't really have cared who my real mother was . |
| 29 | I rang my dealer who told me there was nothing I could do about it . |