Example sentences of "told [pers pn] about " in BNC.
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| 31 | He told them about the bath in Swines ' building yard . |
| 32 | She told them about the disturbed girl at St Cecilia 's , the girl called Julie who performed feats of levitation , and about the girl who could read a page of a newspaper and remember it , and Enid who could hypnotize with a fountain-pen top . |
| 33 | She stood there , tall , slim , striking , her hair catching light from the sun , and she told them about history or exotic religions — dramatically , humanly , but cleverly mixing in the dry bits with the drama . |
| 34 | In the evening he invited several friends to supper , and told them about his mother 's departure . |
| 35 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 36 | He told them about Mahmoud being put back on the case . |
| 37 | Let's try and get it on the board , which somebody has written on and I told them about that and asked them to clean it , but , bring a spray can of white paint next time . |
| 38 | No-one told them about the drug 's side effects . |
| 39 | And of course I er wirelessed the office headquarters in Edinburgh told them about this so they sent a mine sweeper out from Tobermory . |
| 40 | I told them about |
| 41 | Yeah I know I told them about that ! |
| 42 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 43 | Once she told me about sending her kids to boarding school and asked me what I thought . |
| 44 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 45 | Then he told me about his climb up Iceland 's highest mountain . |
| 46 | He told me about the Icelandic landscapes , harsh yet wondrous , of the coloured rocks in Landmannalaugar and the emptiness . |
| 47 | But it is worth mentioning what a very experienced and established psychiatrist told me about his work when I interviewed him . |
| 48 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 49 | But I will not mention here every group or Asian immigrants in Britain , nor analyse every family structure , but present what the Asian women I spoke to told me about their feelings and situations . |
| 50 | An East African Asian Hindu women told me about a man 's responsibilities ( her husband was carrying them out very successfully , she said ) ‘ I think it is a man 's fault if his wife is backward . |
| 51 | A woman from Nairobi who is a laundry worker in North London but whose husband works in a bank told me about her daughter . |
| 52 | You told me about her once did n't you , Billy , ’ Marie says . |
| 53 | Richard Holmes of the Sheffield YMCA told me about the background to the game . |
| 54 | Last ti me I dined at Balliol I sat next to the Regius Professor of Chemistry , aged around 193 , who told me about his visit to Egypt before the war , probably the Boer War . |
| 55 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 56 | ‘ When Leila told me about you , when I read all that shit you left her , I pitied you , ’ she said bitterly . |
| 57 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 58 | As the train approached Wolverhampton , Powell the historian told me about the foundation of the town in the 10th century and how it grew to prosperity making weapons for the Civil War . |
| 59 | He told me about Piero della Francesca 's mysterious Flagellation in the Ducal palace in Urbino , and he said that it was ‘ probably the greatest small picture in the world ’ , a line which I was able to use in a novel set in Tuscany . |
| 60 | TV told me about the victim of child molestation who claimed , ‘ I owe my analyst my life ’ . |