Example sentences of "told i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the building society bloke 's told me today they 've got a hundred and fifty accounts in the office that are sort of heavily in arrears |
| 2 | Father had told me repeatedly that as a woman my role was to surrender to a man : that submission and compliance would be the meaning of my life . |
| 3 | But you still have n't told me why Catherine is n't with you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You still have n't told me why you 've walked on my property — and what have you to do with Rose ? ’ |
| 5 | He does n't answer because his press officer has told me beforehand that he does n't intend to talk in any detail about it . |
| 6 | You talk and when you 've told me where McCloy is and what he paid you , then you can go downstairs and hide your head . ’ |
| 7 | She said : ‘ John has n't told me where he is because he says it 's best that I do n't know , then I ca n't be tempted to tell anyone . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed , had he told me where he went and with whom on the evenings he spent away from the attic , I should have felt less vulnerable : it was secrecy itself I found hostile . |
| 9 | And eventually , well I had a , I had a questionnaire letters were coming to him which I sent back because I , Paul had never told me where he lived in Gloucester . |
| 10 | ‘ But you have told me again and again not to do that . ’ |
| 11 | And still prove that I believe what you 've told me tonight ? ’ |
| 12 | Had she been Matron , her telling me to sit down would have told me immediately that whatever her reason for wanting to see me it was not to sack me . |
| 13 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 14 | ‘ If anyone had told me when I took over in November that we would be in the Irish Cup semi-final , I would n't have believed it . |
| 15 | ‘ If anyone had told me when we were getting ready to meet Dublin — more in hope than confidence , it must be admitted — that in the early Nineties two Ulster teams would win the All Ireland and another would be in the final I would have laughed at them , ’ says Jimmy . |
| 16 | The Prison Governors Association has told me clearly that it opposes the Bill on the grounds that the measures that it contains are ’ too draconian ’ — I use its exact words . |
| 17 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 18 | ‘ The theatre have told me not to come back , and Mrs Seager wo n't let us stay on . ’ |
| 19 | I was n't put off by the fact that Jo had told me not to call or see her . |
| 20 | A very striking example was told me not long since by someone who attended a dinner party in Moscow soon after Gagarin 's space trip — the Gagarin who had reported that he did not see God in space ( see p. 57 ) . |
| 21 | Well , she had n't even told me yet about any chairs getting ripped up . |
| 22 | ‘ You have n't told me yet who she is . ’ |
| 23 | You ai n't told me yet . |
| 24 | Yeah , she said the other , er yesterday , er I do n't know what it 's like she has n't told me yet , oh er me mum 's bought one , oh aye , me mum 's is very nice I 've seen that , I know me dad 's had one as well . |
| 25 | I wish you 'd told me sooner , that 's all . |
| 26 | You 've told me already . |
| 27 | Yeah and she 's just ch told me completely the opposite . |
| 28 | But erm the doctors have told me really I can do whatever I want to straight away virtually you know , and erm I 'll just give it another week or two weeks before I start practising erm and you know , I 'm very fit now . |
| 29 | think of your lad 's name and I 'm saying you give it to erm tt erm oh yeah I remember , but he 'd already told me off . |
| 30 | Nobody has told me before to pack up , why are you bringing it up today ? ’ |