Example sentences of "[pers pn] told [noun] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I told Adele that what happened was , about what you said to me when I go about sort it out . |
| 2 | I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’ |
| 3 | I told Harry that I did n't really see how this could be resolved in your absence so we should just leave until you return from holiday . |
| 4 | ‘ I told Harry that you went to the police with the tape from the answering machine . |
| 5 | I told David that he had to get off and at least stand on the platform because it was the city where the Czar was murdered . |
| 6 | David and I did have conversations about it and I told David that I thought he should get an accountant , or that he should ask for an account from Tony if he had questions about where money was going . |
| 7 | As I was applying to art school I needed a reference so I told Vivienne that I thought I 'd ask Malcolm , since he was my employer . |
| 8 | I told Harold that I did not approve of the appointment , but for reasons that he would not greatly appreciate . |
| 9 | I told detectives that he had a pilot 's licence and could fly himself out of the country . |
| 10 | had a van , but the spare room I told Danny that he 's got to get off in a |
| 11 | The next morning at breakfast she told Conradin that she had sold the chicken . |
| 12 | There she told officers that she had been stripped , raped and abused by the men of the First Battalion . |
| 13 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 14 | She told Annie that she had to do some shopping , then doubled back and waited . |
| 15 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 16 | She told Julia that she had put the blame for her child on to one of the Germans who had arrested her . |
| 17 | Yeah I was coming up now I should think , she told Claire that she 'd bought one and Claire said oh she could have had this so I said oh I said |
| 18 | Anyway , at Stevenage Town Hall we told Ralph that we expected some money for these . |
| 19 | He told Stirling that he needed his best men himself and he was not going to allow them to join the SAS after the ‘ failure at Benghazi ’ . |
| 20 | But privately he told friends that he had been cowed by his rave reviews . |
| 21 | Mr Gummer has used the guest house for every Tory conference since his student days and he told friends that he has been rewarded for his continued custom with the best room in the house . |
| 22 | He told Ballater that someone had been breaking in . |
| 23 | He told Brown that he had seen some soldiers breaking into a shop , stealing worthless electrical equipment and shooting the protesting store owner . |
| 24 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 25 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 26 | Wolfgang 's condition had worsened , and he told Sophie that he had the ‘ taste of death ’ on his tongue . |
| 27 | He told Ramsay that he understood that the Regent — which meant Will Douglas — was planning an invasion of England , no less . |
| 28 | He told Annette that he understood Chekhov 's philosophy — ‘ That in the loving is the escape from loneliness . |
| 29 | He told police that he had tried cannabis during the previous weekend while driving in Catterick Garrison with a friend . |
| 30 | There was a young boy there with his cows at the time , and he told Kalchu that he had watched the bull and it had walked slowly right round the circumference of the Kālādika , before lying down where Kalchu had found it . |