Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] told [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The footprints told him it was only one person . |
| 2 | 1pm The Commissioners told us we were at perfect liberty to go on shore when we pleased . ’ |
| 3 | The signposts told her they were heading towards Oxford . |
| 4 | The jury heard a tape-recording of an interview between police officers and Hammond , in which he sobbed repeatedly when the officers told him his daughter was dead . |
| 5 | The Britons told him they want western governments to negotiate with Iraq . |
| 6 | And we priced from from what the customers told us what they wanted , and then we would tell the customers how much that would cost , we got a feeling for the support for certain initiatives . |
| 7 | The files told him their story — a tale of rare incompetence and of opportunity for him . |
| 8 | ‘ The teachers told me he 'd let the clots in with the cream . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The teachers told us it was Victoria and Albert lessons today , ’ said Ella through her last mouthful of cake . |
| 10 | The mothers told her they had given their children , who ranged in age from six to 17 , as much information as they could . |
| 11 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |
| 12 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 13 | Mr Anthony said that when Sim was still unable to pay , the moneylenders told him he could clear the debt by taking the drugs to Dundee . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the violence , the girls told me it was difficult to be friendly with white girls . |
| 15 | In schools in this area , the girls told me there were three social groups , West Indian , English and Irish , and Asian . |
| 16 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 17 | Distraught Christine , of Bell Farm , York , said : ‘ The doctors told me he could die any minute . ’ |
| 18 | The doctors told me he was unimproved by his stay with them . |
| 19 | The 21-year-old star — plucked from children 's TV last year to host TOTP — says : ‘ The doctors told me I had a very bad case of food poisoning . ‘ |
| 20 | The doctors told me I should n't talk so much . |
| 21 | The doctors told me I would never have a child of my own . |
| 22 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ When the police told me I just cried . |
| 24 | ‘ The police told me you were here . |
| 25 | ‘ But the police told us there was nothing worth reporting , ’ said the voice impatiently . |
| 26 | The others told him it was just right . |